Skip to contents
In This Issue:
by Anne Neely
Each week through the opening of the Shapiro Cardiovascular Center, BWH Bulletin will feature a work of art from the center’s collection. More than 20 contemporary pieces will be permanently displayed throughout the building to promote healing, conversation and thought.
Anne Neely’s “Up from Below,” is an oil painting on canvas. In the artist’s words:
‘This is a ‘seed’ painting, which means that it is the beginning of a movement, a shift in my work. It was started in 2005 and finished two years later. Some paintings are like that. This one offered a beginning, but not an ending until I had more of a focused vision that enabled me to complete it. While I have always looked for a visual equivalent of the life force through nature, this time I created a new metaphor. I imagined the pulse and flow of our interior systems made up of cell structures and likened it to a subterranean landscape, hence the name ‘Up From Below,’ where different layers meld into one another while rivulets of water find their way through and nourish existing systems. Dominating my current vision, water is the conduit of life energy, and so, to follow water’s meandering ways in nature and in the body is to witness its power and magic and ways it leads us into the healing process.”