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Tosca ‘Texas' Engisch |
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Toscaengisch@hotmail.com |
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817/498-2998 |
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Bio
The birth of my parents’ second child in 1943 resulted in an increase in sugar rations. This new event made my appearance more welcome than my brother’s, who was not so happy with my arrival. This fact was very apparent to me as one of my earliest perceptions. We certainly had a friendly rivalry and this competition was to fuel much of my ambition to be educated and to develop my artist inside.
Living in the Bronx the first four years increased my early love of the city and frequent visits to Dallas, the maternal homestead showed the opposite side of existence as the cowboy land of sunshine, song, and wide open skies. Memories of traveling to and from the extremes made conscious the changing land to my early eyes and appreciation for thermal differences. Going to the Roman Catholic Church was a pageant of medieval traditions that was also to impress upon me an early love of the Divine. Hearing the small storefront Gospel congregations in the little town of Seagoville showed me another contrast of religious expression. Spirit is the aspect of art to life that is most dear to what I may express in my work and manifests itself in all the visual media.
Tosca Engisch
Artist Statement
“Madonna of the Future”
The present images are a past look at the many historical aspects of Mary, the young mother of the historical Jesus. I have used the costumes of a time that represents a youth about to become the bride for the embodiment of the son of God. She is the meditation and the Magnificat. She wills to do the will of God. Hers is a gift to the world, a son to become the redemption for the sins of men and women, the gift of the heavenly Father to all of us of the future from that act. She is the threshold of past to purity for future souls. Mary, the mother of God, lives and never suffers corruption. We live eternally through a faith in the manifestation of this divine intervention and my visual dialogue is to portray this. It is my prayer in paint.
Tosca Engisch
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