Heideggerian Summary of the 67-Sculpture Journey

Across these 67 works, we have moved through prehistoric animal-spirits and Neolithic idols; through divine embodiments of empire, transcendence, and civic virtue; into modernism’s fragmentation and abstraction; and finally, into the silent voids of contemporary presence.

Heidegger’s philosophy teaches us that:

• Art is not a representation, but a happening of truth.

• The artwork opens a clearing, a Lichtung, where earth and world meet in strife, and Being shows itself.

• The greatest works are not those which "please" the senses, but those that found a world, that let beings appear as themselves—in silence, in grandeur, in fracture, or repose.

Each sculpture analyzed was not merely a form, but a site of truth—a place where the mystery of Being stepped forward, quietly, dramatically, or painfully, and asked us not to look, but to dwell.