EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT candio.com is LIVE!

Candace Mercer Olympia, WA
4 min readJan 11, 2023

Fine art for fun people and thought criminals

Against all odds and a very steep learning curve, my 2022 project has come to fruition.

At 12:00 am on 1/1/23 candio.com went live! I FINALLY have a print on demand store selling my art! Thus begins a new and exciting phase of my career! I have owned this domain for 25 years but never had a website.

I am having a 10% off sale for my first customers, see below for coupon code.

This pillow can be bought here.

My first collection is a combination of hand done imagery from the 80s and modern digital art. It reflects many of the themes I wrestled with in 2022 and several pieces were inspired by the #LetWomenSpeak protests where women were attacked for trying to exercise our free speech rights.

Another theme I am exploring is the issue of cool and whether it is dead, along with irony and other art forms.

This journal can be bought here.

I have always firmly believed that artists should be at the front of the culture war. The culture war cannot be won without culture. It really hit me that part of the reason I care so much about issues such as gender ideology is that culture…

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Candace Mercer Olympia, WA

Candace is a progressive artist/writer/activist based in Olympia, WA reporting on homelessness & political violence. She ran for Olympia City Council in 2021.