Kandice Kardell is an intermedia visual artist with a practice rooted in alternative photographic processes and fiber/textile techniques. Often working outdoors, she first follows an intuitive approach to creation, gradually completing her work with careful, ritualistic embellishment. Her processes, materials and subject matter are also influenced by—and dependent upon—natural elements of water, wind, sun, and earth.

Kandice considers her works to be visual meditations on the death/desire relationship, and the expression of grief and ritual across cultures. She feels Western culture’s apparent desire for eternal youth and human progress hastens mourning rituals and promotes a sanitized distance from death. Similarly, Kandice finds a striking correlation between the death taboo, human disconnection from the natural world, and climate change denial. She seeks to reconnect viewers with nature and the humbling beauty of human impermanence.

Kandice has exhibited at U.S. galleries in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Gilbert, and Chicago. Her work is included in several private collections across the United States.