Florence Hawkins-Criss stands next to her artwork at Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital in Dallas. She crafted a series of paintings, “Listen to Your Heart,” to ...

has begun to pour her heart out on canvas. She has found solace in painting lonely flowers, strength in renderings of simple tableware and happiness in painting the occasional portrait.

A painting by Joel Babb (Courtesy of Joel Babb) I could see the patient’s heart beating, open to the air, the chest having been retracted. At that moment I had the feeling of seeing from outside ...