Visibility

    In general, I think the article "Visibility" written by Italo Calvino was very complex, and slightly hard to understand in parts.  However, what catch my attention was the section that explained what we see on the movie screen had to first pass through the imagination of the director.  It is interesting to think each small detail of a film first begins in someone's mind before becoming something tangible and/or visible.
     I also connected with the section that describes a word transforming into an image.  For example, when we read a book and create an entire world within our minds.  It is fascinating to think multiple people could read the same exact book, yet have vastly different visions of what the characters, setting, etc. are like.
    Lastly, it was interesting that it mentioned that St. Ignatius of Loyola took words and transformed them into visuals in his imagination to gain more knowledge of God.  A quote from Dante also caught  my attention,  in which he says" O imagination, you who have the power to impose ourselves on our facilities and our wills, stealing us from the outer world, and carrying us off to an inner one."  I think our imagination can be helpful to create, dream, escape, etc., but sometimes it can be a negative force that take you away from reality when you need to be present.  (It happens to me in class occasionally).  In summary, Calvino's article was complex and at points difficult to understand, but it also make me think deeper into the imagination and the mind.