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Welcome to the Exhale
PLA with mirror paint
5"x5"x4"
2024
In my practice, I am realizing A Metaphysical Guide to Surviving the Anthropocene. This work imagines the ways that collaborative institutional, spiritual, and ideological paradigms could enable humans to create a non-hierarchical interconnectedness with the Earth and the natural worlds – one that is healing to both human beings and to our planetary co-inhabitants. Through highlighting the rapidly occurring collapse of the extractive institutions of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and speciesism, a space is created where it is possible to manifest the world that will be made in the absence of these institutions. A new form of faith is posited; one where reverence and connection with Creation and all Beings is the genesis for humans to change their role from environmental extractors and exploiters to ones of Guardians and Caretakers of the living world.
Debra Couch
@debracouch_
Debra Couch is a sculptor living in Chicago and will be joining the MFA program in Sculpture at SAIC this fall. She began her art practice in middle age and is looking forward to practicing until she is at least 99! Debra has had a deep meditation practice for over 30 years which informs her work.
Welcome to the Exhale
PLA with mirror paint
5"x5"x4"
2024
In my practice, I am realizing A Metaphysical Guide to Surviving the Anthropocene. This work imagines the ways that collaborative institutional, spiritual, and ideological paradigms could enable humans to create a non-hierarchical interconnectedness with the Earth and the natural worlds – one that is healing to both human beings and to our planetary co-inhabitants. Through highlighting the rapidly occurring collapse of the extractive institutions of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and speciesism, a space is created where it is possible to manifest the world that will be made in the absence of these institutions. A new form of faith is posited; one where reverence and connection with Creation and all Beings is the genesis for humans to change their role from environmental extractors and exploiters to ones of Guardians and Caretakers of the living world.
Debra Couch
@debracouch_
Debra Couch is a sculptor living in Chicago and will be joining the MFA program in Sculpture at SAIC this fall. She began her art practice in middle age and is looking forward to practicing until she is at least 99! Debra has had a deep meditation practice for over 30 years which informs her work.