The book follows an almost narrative thread that moves from the "account of reality" to "experimentation on the medium", then to the contemporary "experimentation on language", to the large body of work around Polaroids and installations, and finally to the two ideas of "matter and memory", the two poles (positive and negative, interchangeable) in which all of Migliori’s volcanic energy is at work. Migliori surprises everyone who approaches him: for his seismic output, for the variety of his projects, for the constant shifts of language he has brought to his research. But the real surprise lies in the absolute coherence he has kept over so many years, from experiments to figurative images to the boldest new installations: all his work rests on a single language to explore, photography, the essential raw material for creating his visual dreams. To photograph, he has said, means to choose and to transform. In his work matter is always transformed into something else: a shred of memory for posterity, a question for his contemporaries, a new road to travel.