u/DEFarnes

This is a weird post that will very likely not reach this person or anyone who can explain this but my partner and I figured it was worth a try.
My partner & I visited the national gallery last year and really took our time walking through the gallery, and there was another gentleman there taking his time as well and in front of each painting, he would like thrust his arms forward and then towards his head as if he was absorbing the painting. He was doing some sort of very intentional dance(?) in front of every painting, it looked as if he was trying to like absorb the painting and its power, LOL — all this to say, our biggest regret is not asking him what he was doing. And we decided to post this here in the small chance it reaches this person, we are constantly joking about what they could have been doing/attempting to do and the curiosity is killing us!!
So, if you were this person performing some sort of dance/spell/etc on the paintings at the gallery, what were you doing??