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:
