Painting Talks

Delphine and Miles meet in the museum in front of a painting by Pieter De Hooch 1658 – The Court Yard of a House in Delft – finding themselves sitting together they openly discuss the painting and what it means to them. Miles gives a very technical admiration while Delphine sees its real meaning of asking the viewer to enter here to learn of patience and meekness. That you have to descend before you can really raise yourself. The woman in the hallway depicted, is facing away and silent – waiting for goodness to come in the form of a child carrying fruit – the fruit representing simple wealth – the girl is accompanied by a maid who shows tenderness and the care of the meek for they shall rise to become the giver of love and faith. In this discussion, Miles is bewitched by Delphine's passion of the painting and realises that it describes his fall and the promise that with patience and meekness he could rise to – to not happiness, but contentedness – to just have enough to be and now a women (Delphine) that could support him emotionally while he struggles back to a life of hope.