Birth of the “Art Baby,” aka the Heart Movement by Dr. Anna Biela 06.12.2025
Site-Specific Installation — Banksy Room, WOH, Bethlehem
This project began with an invitation I extended to Banksy — the belief that I needed a man to complete a woman’s task. But what I am truly bringing into the world is not a collaboration with a person. I am giving birth to an art baby, a heart baby. In the language of the soul, I am birthing heart waves I call the Heart Movement: a flow of perception, energy, and awakening
This birth has already happened energetically. Now it must manifest in matter.
I recognize now that I do not need Banksy the man, but the quality of his energy — the frequency of clarity, rebellion, tenderness, and subversive light that his work carries. Everything is energy, and from energy creation takes form. This installation is born from that principle.
The upcoming “MADOA 154 & M4RY4M” Bethlehem Art Residency — self-appointed and self-declared — is dedicated to giving birth to light. From December 17th to January 6th, I will inhabit the Banksy Room at the Walled Off Hotel. The room becomes a womb, a studio, and a threshold. It is a collaboration with the energetic imprint of Banksy and the symbolic charge of Bethlehem — the birthplace of light in collective consciousness.
My birthday — the 3-3-3 day of 2025 — occurred during my stay in Paris from 28.11 to 05.12. I used this time as a portal. In Bio Energy terms, I now embody the Holy Trinity — the father, the son, and the spirit — although I prefer to say the mother, the daughter, and spirita. The numbers of my birthday have always whispered this to me: the 111, the 999, the 333. I stepped into my light. I now stand, as my therapist says, like the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The Winter Solstice, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve are also temporal gateways. Together they frame this work, marking the transition from energetic conception to physical creation. I will be in Bethlehem to give birth to the Art Baby.
Within the room, my process will be intuitive and direct. I will use the space as an art studio, with deep respect for the surroundings, as I will be living within a work of art created by Banksy. Being immersed in his energy is the symbolic conception for creating the Heart Baby — spontaneous, intuitive ink-based works made with black ink on paper. I will draw, and each drawing will be a contraction, a pulse, a wave of the Heart Movement made visible.
This installation is the moment where energy becomes form, where the unseen becomes seen, and where a heart baby becomes matter. It is an offering of light, born in Bethlehem.
