“I think my favorite is Disillusioned Medea - I feel like I should pick something by one of the few female painters in the collection, but there’s a quality to this painting I can’t shake. Are you a fan of greek tragedies?” It was Naomi’s habit, to make conversation with those who lingered near her at museums - if you didn’t want to socialize and share ideas while staring at art, you should get rich enough to buy it and stare in silence ... or so Naomi believed. It was a warm Thursday afternoon, during the blissful hour and a half of her lunch break - never one to merely sit and eat, she’d slipped away from the office, using her yearly pass to cut the lines, and get lost in the newly decorated hall, of dutch art. “Medea fascinated me back in high-school, but she’s grown all the more complex, in the wake of motherhood. What madness is strong enough to bid you to destroy your own creations?”
Her newfound companion was a beautiful, intelligent looking woman - no older than twenty eight, by Naomi’s assessment. Undoubtedly unencumbered by any real times, flitting through her days with only the worries of youth - aside from her newfound shackles in the form of a jewish mom. “You look young enough to be an art student - history, perhaps? Or a painter?”