{"id":150336,"date":"2025-08-16T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/150336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:14:14","slug":"a-very-long-now-alicia-eggerts-fort-worth-roundabout-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/150336\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Long Now: Alicia Eggert\u2019s Fort Worth Roundabout Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roundabouts aren\u2019t 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,\u00a0\u201cA Very Long Now,\u201d is part of a curated public art effort along Marine Creek Parkway, according to Fort Worth Public Arts<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Curated by Iris Bechtol, the work is Eggert\u2019s 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 \u201cNOW\u201d climb in a spiral, each one so thin it almost disappears from the side. Together, they form a towering 29-foot gesture \u2014 linear yet cyclical, finite yet hinting at the endlessness of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2019s sculpture suggests an upward and outward reach that could extend indefinitely \u2014 a future still very much alive in the present moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eggert designed\u00a0this sculpture\u00a0in collaboration with architect H James Lucas. Spanning 36 feet wide and 25 feet deep, the sculpture was fabricated by 900 North Studios, engineered by AJ Kuhn, and installed with civil engineering guidance from Jim DeOtte. Local contractor Northstar Construction handled the foundation and hardscaping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Inspired by physics and philosophy, Eggert borrows the methods of commercial signage to create works that linger in the imagination. Her installations have appeared on rooftops in Russia, bridges in Amsterdam, and isolated islands in Maine, inviting viewers to consider their place in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eggert\u2019s work has been exhibited at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian, the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Telfair Museums. But at the end of the day, she\u2019s a tenured Associate Professor of Studio Art at the University of North Texas \u2014 who just so happens to have gifted Fort Worthians a striking new sculpture to ponder. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe word \u2018Now\u2019 can have very different meanings when it is used in different contexts,\u201d Eggert said in regard to her sculpture. \u201cBut our capacity to create a better future seems like it might depend on our collective ability to conceive of \u2018Now\u2019 in much longer terms \u2014 one that is longer or wider than our narrow fields of vision can contain. How would our behaviors change if we imagined a \u2018Now\u2019 that extends 10,000 years into the past, or 10,000 years into the future?\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roundabouts aren\u2019t usually places where you stop and ponder existence. But at Marine Creek Parkway and Longhorn Road,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,1037,12043,20503,7371,7372,9730,18610,358,6620,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-150336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-arts-and-culture","11":"tag-driving","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-fwtx-staff","15":"tag-roads","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-time","18":"tag-top-story","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115038156574022193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}