Heidegger wrote the text of this essay on stone. It is a meditation on the relationship between sculpture and space. A statue embodies space, but what does space mean in this context? It cannot be the space of natural science. If art is the setting-into-work of truth, sculpture should disclose space in its true and most unique instance. Heidegger tries to find the characteristic features of space by listening to language. In the word space (Raum), we can still hear the echo of making space (Räumen), which means clearing. The clearing of wilderness gives the free and open where mortals can dwell and divinities can appear. Making space is the release of a place that opens regions where it can gather things into their belonging together. Are places the result of making space, or does making space receive its power and dynamic for the reign of spaces that gather things? Things themselves are places and do not only belong at a certain place. Sculpture is the embodiment of the truth of being in its work as the founding and giving of places.