This Present Moment at 11,000 feet. This drone shot is part of a longer video of the project I did with that is currently on view .
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Witness the journey of a neon sign sculpted by depicting 's words as it ascends Mt. Washington in Nevada.
Watch the exhibition video "This Present Moment at 11,000 Feet":
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I’m thrilled that I can finally share the documentary that was made about my collaboration with . Watch it on Vimeo at the link below.
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.@AliciaEggert's sculpture “This Present Moment” uses neon, steel, & the words of @StewartBrand to help us grapple with the unimaginable future.
Watch our documentary on the journey the sign took to the bristlecone pines on the top of Mount Washington. vimeo.com/showcase/10122
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Good news for fans of maintenance, neon, and art about our perception of time: Alicia Eggert's This Present Moment, has been repaired -- check it out at Building B at @FortMasoninSF until the end of the month. longnow.org/ideas/alicia-e
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“Time itself cannot be made, but if time is a medium, what can be made present with it? Can it be stretched and compressed like clay? Can it be turned like wood, carved like stone, bent like glass, or woven like twine?”
—Alicia Eggert
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's art explores the passage of time through sculptures made of neon, steel, and words themselves. Watch her Long Now Talk now:
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Great to see 's art instalation and video 'In This Present Moment' this weekend in San Francisco! It inspires reflections on time, life cycles, and (in)finite horizons.
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.’s This Present Moment at 11,000 feet, placed among Bristlecone Pines, some of the longest-lived trees on Earth:
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Kilimanjaro Day 7: Summit day!
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All the Light You See is up in Washington, D.C. until January 22 as part of Georgetown GLOW. ✨ #GeorgetownGLOW
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My postcard from the future
... a PSA courtesy of the Foundation...
I guess if the now is long enough, it becomes the future...
and if we are mindful and present, then it all becomes imaginable
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I revisit this lesson on writing structure every 3-4 months.
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From last Friday's opening party for 's This Present Moment, now on exhibit at from now until January. All photos by Gary Wilson.
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This week we took to the streets to fight for abortion access and bodily autonomy.
Tonight in Philadelphia we reclaimed the sky with drones to share the message #AbortionIsFreedom
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Truth in a neon sculpture titled
This Present Moment
by interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert.
Presented by the Long Now Foundation.
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This Powerful Amon Carter Exhibit Shows How Indigenous Photographers Are Taking 'Indian' Identity Back From The Colonizers | via
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"On a clear day you can see forever."
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discuss her latest project, "This Present Moment," and partnership w/ . Learn why sculpted 's words in neon and traversed them atop Mt Washington, 11,658'.
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This present moment used to be the unimaginable future.
took this quote and turned it into art.
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Our collective future depends on our capacity to imagine a perspective beyond our own limited view.
Join us Thursday for a conversation with interdisciplinary artist & Long Now Executive Director on time, art & long-term thinking. longnow.org/ideas/02022/07
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This Thursday in San Francisco!
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This week:
Interdisciplinary artist and Long Now Research Fellow @AliciaEggert joins us to give a talk on Thursday, followed by the opening party for our exhibition at @FortMasoninSF of her sculpture This Present Moment the next day.
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As every moment passes the future becomes the present, & the present becomes the past.
's art explores time through neon, steel, & words. Join us for a party celebrating the opening of our exhibition of Eggert's This Present Moment on 11/4. longnow.org/ideas/02022/10
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describes blue as the color “of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not.” 💙
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The Blue of Distance is included in my current solo exhibition at Sienna Patti Gallery in Lenox, MA. It is inspired by the writing of .
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A common source of disappointment is recency bias: weighing the last week more heavily than the last year.
Zooming in on the immediate past magnifies slumps. Zooming out farther reveals upward slopes.
Progress is rarely visible at a snapshot in time. It unfolds over a lifetime.
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Kilimanjaro Day 2: In the clouds
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Over on Instagram I’ve been posting day-by-day breakdowns of my time on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Here’s day 1:
Alicia Eggert’s art creates a framework to contemplate our human experience within the seemingly infinite universe. Her sculptures illuminate the passage of time, their physicality embodying the ephemeral through thought-provoking quotes rendered in neon, steel, and time itself.
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Next week: join us for a Long Now Talk from interdisciplinary artist on her work and how it plays with our conceptions of time. longnow.org/ideas/02022/07
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"This Present Moment Used To Be The Unimaginable Future"
-- 's exhortation seen in the newsletter
What action can you take today to create the unimaginable future you desire?
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I did it - I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with a neon sign! And I have so many pictures and thoughts to share about the experience. Here’s a teaser…
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On Friday, November 4, we will be hosting an opening party for our exhibition of @AliciaEggert's This Present Moment in partnership with @FortMasoninSF.
We hope that you can join us in SF & contemplate the Big Here & the Long Now through the exhibition. longnow.org/ideas/02022/10
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Today I begin the journey of bringing “You are (on) a mountain” to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Before I go, here are a few pics of what it looks like to pack an 8-ft tall neon sign into two XL duffel bags. Wish me luck! 💚
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"By extracting Brand’s words [...] and momentarily placing them in an environment marked by deep time, Eggert establishes a literal relationship between the present moment & the long term"
on 's art at our Mount Washington site: forbes.com/sites/jonathon
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A Neon Sign Provocatively Installed On A Primeval Mountainside Shows The Urgency Of Long-Term Thinking | via
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