{"id":844,"date":"2013-06-10T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:16:05","slug":"healing-waters-fountain-now-in-courtyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Healing waters fountain now in courtyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Awret.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1008\" alt=\"Healing Waters\" src=\"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Awret.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Awret.jpg 195w, http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Awret-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>The fountain and statue Healing Waters, created by Azriel Awret and purchased by NIH in 1987, has been moved to the courtyard to the west of the Atrium. Its previous locations were the Lipsett Auditorum waiting area by the\u00a0shark tank\u00a0and at the base of the escalator between the first and second floors.<\/p>\n<p>This bronze sculpture of a young woman drinking water from her cupped hands echoes the Biblical reference of drinking from the healing waters of Bethesda. In Aramaic, \u201cbeth hesda\u201d means \u201chouse of mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to tradition, an angel moved the waters and healed the sick at the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. As recorded in John 5:1-9, it was at the Pool of Bethesda that Jesus healed a lame man.<\/p>\n<p>Artists Azriel and Irene Awret met at Belgium\u2019s Mechelen Nazi transit camp. They married in 1944 and in the 1970s moved to Falls Church, Va. Their art includes murals at Montgomery County schools, Azriel\u2019s sculptures at George Mason University and Strathmore, and Irene\u2019s book, \u201cThey\u2019ll Have to Catch Me First,\u201d about her experience as a Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Azriel\u2019s second work on the NIH campus is on the grounds of the Children\u2019s Inn.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fountain and statue Healing Waters, created by Azriel Awret and purchased by NIH in 1987, has been moved to the courtyard to the west of the Atrium. Its previous locations were the Lipsett Auditorum waiting area by the\u00a0shark tank\u00a0and at the base of the escalator between the first and second floors. This bronze sculpture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ffinearts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}