Anything we photograph is an event, static or moving, it's a real-life event. We must transform it into a photographic event. Something that would not exist without the photograph and without our intervention. If it remains a real event, it holds no interest. Therefore, in photography, in the attempt to become a photographic event, the values of reality change. Primarily, they change in hierarchy. Something very small from real life, for instance, a trace on a surface, a pattern on a dress, a movement, which in real life goes unnoticed and ranks last among events, in photography it might be what defines the photographic event. Thus, in photography, and in art in general, what counts is the transformation. Things are different from what I took. After all, Art according to André Malraux is the Transformation of the Gods. This happens in an abstract way. Another word that defines all arts. Abstraction is not about what was called abstract art, it has to do with the fact that art itself is abstract, because in reality whatever it does, it abstracts to emphasize. And this is very substantial and quite difficult to define with definitions and explanations. Finally, when all this reaches a superlative degree, then we can say that we have high art, i.e., a transcendence even of this transformation. One cannot define what transcendence is, but we would simply say (if one can say these things are simple), when you identify so much with what is in front of you that you return to it after you have penetrated it, after you go through it and become one with it, and then you see and render it differently. This actually happens independent of the artist on a few rare occasions that can truly do something beyond themselves. The only way to do it is not to pursue it, but to create the conditions, the prerequisites, the method, that will lead to it. Ultimately, if we put all this together, along with the general idea the artist has about art and their work and themselves, we should be led to an identity of the artist, which will be indeterminate but clear, strikingly clear in the work. This identity cannot be created at a very young age, life age or photography age, but must gradually emerge and be a surprise even to the artist themselves. Hence the goal is the creation of style, the creation of identity, the creation of an artistic signature, but it is not something one can pursue and not something that can be achieved at a very fresh artistic age.