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Annunciation 2021 colored pencil on paper |
Artist Statement: This is an image that has been in my head literally for decades, and Coronatide finally stung me into action to put it on paper. The archangel Gabriel doesn't need wings, or a floral baton — just the most delicate of kisses, and that not even angelic flesh to human, but just the breath on a nimbus. Bio: Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG retired from full-time ministry after 16 years as Vicar at St James Fordham (Bronx NY). While in New York he served diocesan leadership as a trustee and on the Standing Committee, as Deputy to General Convention for over a decade, and a on the Anglican Communion Indaba Reference Group. He lives in Baltimore and is an associate at Church of the Advent, Federal Hill. He is a life-professed member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory, and a Commander of the Order of St John. An iconographer, visual artist (who has served as an ECVA curator in the past), musician, and author, his publications include Reasonable and Holy (Seabury 2009), Shared Governance (Church Publishing 2012), The Episcopal Handbook Revised (Church Publishing 2015), Preparing for a Wedding in the Episcopal Church (Church Publishing 2017), What About Sex? — A Little Book of Guidance (Church Publishing 2017), and his most recent, Re-Membering God: Human Hope and Divine Desire (Church Publishing 2019) which includes chapters on art, music, and architecture as human articulations of this quest. |
