Baltimore Museum of Art.
Baltimore, MD.
To avoid the monotony of habit, one must take certain risks & deviate from the routine. A woman enters a museum & pays in cold, hard cash. No one can track her through a trail of credit cards. As far as the world's concerned, she is a ghost. Bedelia Du Maurier prefers it that way. Alone, she wanders the vast halls on a Tuesday when only a few tourists are strewn about.
She enters the Wing of Contemporary Art. Stiletto heels go click, click, click { ! } across the polished, wooden floorboards. She meanders around a messy-haired art student with sketchbook in his hand. She walks with purpose; she walks with a sense of direction even though her path twisted somewhere along the way.
The retired psychiatrist stops in the center of the hallway. A needle could drop & you still wouldn't hear the sound. It's an Alison Saar sculpture. A human figure's hanging upside down, a thread looped around the ankle. The piece reminds Bedelia of a rabbit caught in a crude trap, suffering in silence.
♟– ❝Clever to depict life hanging by a thread.❞
She says to no one. Says to the woman in the corner of the room.