Creators and preservers

pp. 155-167

in: Karsten Harries, Art matters, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstract

The establishing of truth in the work is the bringing forth of a being such as never was before and will never come to be again. The bringing forth places this being in the Open in such a way that what is to be brought forth first clears the openness of the Open into which it comes forth. Where this bringing forth expressly brings the openness of beings, or truth, that which is brought forth is a work. Creation is such a bringing forth. As such a bringing, it is rather a receiving and an incorporating of a relation to unconcealedness. What accordingly does the createdness consist in? It may be elucidated by two essential determinations (G5, 50/62).