The ninety-fifth video of "Short Monologues by Platon Rivellis on Photography and Art" (2nd series, 2017).

Words are very important because we communicate with them, and words are what carry the idea they define. However, words almost always define something which, in our minds, in our consciousness, has much broader dimensions. This is especially the case when we speak about things that pertain to art—that is, imagination, dreams, and not a very defined reality. We often hear the word 'transmission' or 'transfer' used in relation to art. As if the artist is a transmitter and the audience the receivers of his messages. This sounds nice but it doesn't seem very true or at least precise when talking about art. There are other words that would help me more to approach what others refer to as the message of art. I believe that an artist discovers, he doesn't invent; first, he discovers. He discovers something that exists within him and which he sees in the world but his neighbor does not. Let me make it a bit overly simplistic, but perhaps that way it becomes more understandable. And from the moment he discovers it and offers it to the viewers, listeners, recipients, it's as if he reveals things to them that they did not know. Thus, art is a revelation for each viewer, the emotion it provokes is a revelation emotion, almost a divine revelation showing them sides of the world—because the world is always our primary material—sides of emotions, sides of life that would have remained unknown to them had the artist not taken care to discover and reveal them. Therefore, what I perceive as a viewer is not a univocal message but a complex revelation whose truth cannot be analyzed in a single message since precisely every revelation has tremendous extensions depending on the recipient of the revelation. This, for me, gives even greater value to the artist and above all preserves the mystery of the artwork.