Staring at One Picture for Thirty Minutes

I went to the Met and spent thirty minutes staring at a single work of art without breaking eye contact. This is what I saw there.

Adam: You did what?

Adam: I stood in front of a picture at the Met and stared at it for thirty minutes.

Adam: Why exactly?

Adam: If you know the expression, and we do, “It’s better to climb one mountain a thousand times than a thousand mountains.” Instead of walking around the Met past a thousand pictures of beached rowboats and women harvesting, I found a…