
Illuminated Book Jacket (Animism by Graham Harvey), paper with gold leaf, graphite, ink and watercolor 9” x 19.5”, 2021
Candace Jensen
is an interdisciplinary
visual artist, writer, printmaker,
calligrapher, community organizer and
activist committed to realizing a culture
profoundly informed by deep ecology. Jensen
uses hand-made inks, gold leaf, print and painting
media to create visual essays, which expand calligraphic
illumination’s traditional cultural reliquary beyond that of anthropocentrism. Greatly influenced by Gaia Theory, pagan revivalism, animism and interdependence principles, her work asserts through mythic and symbolic language that Earth herself is worthy of the gilded, decorated Capital and that we would do
well to attend to her complex, more-than-human scriptures.
Candace lives and works on the unceded
traditional lands of the Elnu Abenaki,
in Southeastern Vermont. She is
cofounder of In Situ
Polyculture: