Marta Encourages Delfina to Trust Her Photographs

Excuse me. Sorry.

Marta, you're not enjoying it, are you? I didn't think I'd find you here at this hour.

Don't worry, because look, I've taken new photos, I'm going to replace them all.

But why? Just because. Because people aren't liking them, Marta.

They're not having the effect I thought they would.

But how could people not like them? They're exceptional.

Yes, so exceptional that nobody understands them.

Well, they're not meant to be understood.

They're the kind of photographs that you have to let yourself be impressed by.

It's obvious they aim to suggest much more than they tell.

Well, Claudia didn't understand them. That doesn't mean anything.

It does. And besides, Vicente Sastre, the critic, didn't understand them either.

That really surprises me. He's a very sensitive art critic, That's why he writes for the best newspapers.

I know. But Claudia heard him speak ill of my photographs.

I'll believe that when I read his review, which hasn't come out yet, has it?

Delfina, please calm down. I know. Hmm? Marta, do you think that if I talk to the gallery owner he'll let me change the photographs?

Maybe, but if I were you, I wouldn't. That would look really bad, wouldn't it?

You'd show a huge lack of confidence, and you have no reason to.

You should be proud of your photographs and not ashamed of them.

Bianca did advise me to use more conventional photographs, and now I'm going to fail because I'm so stubborn.

Come on. What you have to do is look at these photographs again with the same eyes you had when you took them.

Remember what moved you, what led you to take them.

Because you were excited, right? I was very excited, Marta, very.

It was, I don't know, a very special moment.

In fact, I wasn't even thinking about the framing or, or anything.

They came out almost on their own. It was magical.

And that magic is still there, don't you see?

When you look at them, you can feel the artist's tension trying to decide.

Y-you look at them and, and feel that tension.

Thank you so much for being here, Marta.

How could I not come?

And yesterday, why weren't you here at the opening?

Because I would have been more focused on the social event, on the people.

And what's important to me is your work.

And what do you think of Bianca's paintings?

Oh, I haven't really looked at them. Marta.

That's true. Come on. I'm not going to comment because you'd also think that what I say is because I'm biased.

And you can't be objective about my photographs because you're biased too.

Your photographs are excellent, regardless of our history or how we feel, do you hear me?

Well, anyway, we'll have to wait and see what the critics say.

The critics can say whatever they want. Your photographs are special, hmm?

And what you need to do is start believing it.