It is an odd motif. Hermes skims, but does not dispel the clouds concealing truth, letting truth be perceived without blinding the beholder. Yet this definition is intentionally ambiguous. This happens in creation as the bringing forth of the unconcealedness of what is. This happens as preservation.
Art then is the becoming and happening of truth.
14 Works in the Exhibition Clockwise from gallery entrance. The notion of a hermeneutic circle is that of the problematic of grasping a whole from its parts, which are discernible as parts only in relation to a whole. Mikel Dufrenne, The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience , trans. Edward S. Casey et al. I use 'intentional' in its phenomenological sense of the always already filled condition of consciousness, i.e., that one is always already conscious of some thing, insofar as one is conscious, rather than in the quotidian sense of deliberate action which is derivative of and contingent on the phenomenological sense.