Honestly, when she decided to take a walk to explore the rest of the ship, she wasn't expecting this at all. There were a lot of areas Samus had not yet investigated and she was currently remedying that situation. She had entered the seemingly harmless Hall of Statues simply for the sake of a complete exploration. She had no interest in admiring art.
That was, until she came across
a Chozo Statue.It caught her by surprise. She of course stopped in her tracks when she saw it. Mixed emotions were running rampant right now. Suddenly every idea that she was completely separated from her home galaxy were thrown out the window. If this statue was here what else was here?
She didn't realize that she had been standing and staring for quite awhile now. The stoic hunter must have looked quite strange to anyone who had seen her.