The thirty-sixth video from the series "Short Monologues by Plato Rivellis on Photography and Art".

It is well known that imagination plays a significant role and evidently, it plays a significant role in art. However, there can be no perception of art if there are no senses involved. Art creation starts with the senses, and it is with the senses that the viewer receives it. Yet, the imagination must also contribute. Thus, this is where the strange game of art lies. You bring back with your senses what you initially saw with your senses and enjoy it with your imagination. Photography has this great advantage, among others, that the very senses are active both when you take the photo and when you remember it. That is, you perceive the photo with your senses and automatically, your imagination takes you to the time of memory, combining the old with the new, the past with the present, what you see with what you carry within. This happens with all art. But the challenge with photography is that it does this with actual reality. That is, it uses today’s reality to transport you with your imagination to the reality of the past that you carry within. This creates a great confusion among people about art, and perhaps even more so with photography—because photography relies on the eyes, and no one can believe that what their eyes show them is not what they are seeing. They view the photo, and art in general, and believe that since their senses perceive it, they must understand it. No one ever explained to them that art is not understandable—in the sense of comprehending something and explaining it—and secondly, that you cannot approach a new language like the language of art without being trained in it. This ignorance also creates the viewer's anger who cannot approach a work and cannot respect that the barrier is ignorance and that once ignorance is removed, they will approach it. Therefore, a work of art creates pleasures, but also creates a panic. The panic that is due to ignorance. If we are more humble in the face of our ignorance, then we can enjoy this ignorance and through it be led to imagination, to approach, and to a kind of strange understanding of the work of art.