SHE WAS NEVER HIS MISTRESS
"Two years. It's in my office. Some days it's the best thing in the room."
"Nadia would love to hear that."
"Does she know her work does that to people?"
"She knows. She pretends she doesn't because she thinks it'll jinx it."
He smiled. It rearranged his whole face, that smile. Made him look younger, less composed and more like a real person.
We talked for a while about art the way I rarely got to talk about it outside of work, not the commercial conversation about value and investment but the actual thing underneath, what it did to a room, what it did to a person standing in front of something that was made specifically to be felt.