University of North Texas 
Alicia Eggert unveils her largest public artwork to date in Fort Worth, Texas, at
Marine Creek Parkway at Longhorn Road.
Every Moment Is "Now" in Alicia Eggert’s Latest Sculpture
July 2025 — 
Alicia Eggert, a UNT CVAD associate professor and internationally recognized artist, recently completed
a monumental public art piece in Fort Worth titled "A Very Long Now" — a meditation
on the passage of time through sculptural language.
Located at the center of a traffic roundabout, the large-scale steel and aluminum sculpture features 60 towering “NOWs,” a reference to the seconds and minutes that mark the flow of time. The thin forms vanish and reappear as viewers move around them, a visual reminder of the fleeting nature of the present — their upward spiral gestures toward the continuity of time — each now a bridge between past and future.
“A Very Long Now” is more than 30 feet tall and has 60 individual NOWs, Eggert says, which refers to the 60 seconds in a minute, or 60 minutes in an hour. Driving around the roundabout is therefore similar to circling the face of a clock. The NOWs are extremely thin, so they appear and disappear as you move past them, representing the brief and fleeting nature of the present moment. Meanwhile, the way they flow and spiral upward reminds us that time is continuous, and each moment is an extension of the past and a bridge into the future — a future that will still be now.
The project, commissioned by the City of Fort Worth, received $320,000 in public art funding. It is Eggert’s largest permanent installation to date.
“This sculpture is a clock, but it’s also a poem,” Eggert said. “It invites people to become aware of their place in time — not just on a city street, but in the arc of their lives.”
Eggert collaborated closely with Michelle Richardson, the project manager for Fort Worth Public Art and a 2015 alumna of the UNT Studio Art M.F.A. program.
"A Very Long Now" highlights the increasing significance of public art in urban infrastructure — not as an ornament, but as a concept and catalyst. It also highlights the contributions of UNT alumni to major civic projects across Texas.
Curated by UNT CVAD B.F.A. 2001 alumna Iris Bechtol, "A Very Long Now" encourages both living in the present and thinking in longer terms. Totaling 60 NOWs, the work alludes to small increments of time counted by clocks, the number of seconds in a minute and the number of minutes in an hour. Each NOW, like a brief moment in time, is so thin that it is almost non-existent when viewed from the side. Yet they all work together to create an upward-spiraling form that is greater than the sum of its parts. That form is both linear and cyclical, just like the different ways we perceive and experience time.
Website: Alicia Eggert