Article by the staff at FWTX.com
“Roundabouts aren’t usually places where you stop and ponder existence. But at Marine Creek Parkway and Longhorn Road, Denton-based artist Alicia Eggert has turned the everyday traffic circle into a meditation on time. Her sculpture, “A Very Long Now,” is part of a curated public art effort along Marine Creek Parkway, according to Fort Worth Public Arts.
Curated by Iris Bechtol, the work is Eggert’s attempt to give form to time itself. Stationary yet rhythmic, the sculpture mirrors the motion of cars circling the roundabout, a visual tick of the clock in steel and light. Sixty repetitions of the word “NOW” climb in a spiral, each one so thin it almost disappears from the side. Together, they form a towering 29-foot gesture — linear yet cyclical, finite yet hinting at the endlessness of time.
In other words, each NOW is a reminder: time is continuous, a bridge between what was and what will be. Though the spiral has a visible end, Eggert’s sculpture suggests an upward and outward reach that could extend indefinitely — a future still very much alive in the present moment. “