Thanatos polski
Polish Thanatos

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental element of the sculpture: Polish Thanatos is a boat, or, more precisely, a half – the second half remained in the frozen over Bug River. When asked why I used only half a boat I usually replied that the other half is on the other side, since a boat symbolizes transition from life to death and played such a symbolic role in assorted cultures from times bygone. A boat fulfils the same function which Heidegger granted in his phenomenological discourse to the diverse functions of the bridge, which not only connects but is conceived as the unity of the manner of being a bridge, gathering “the unitary fourfold”.

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