This Present Moment (Used to be the Unimaginable Future)

Light sculpture based on a quote from Stewart Brand's book on long-term thinking, The Clock of the Long Now (1999).

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The epigram comes from the book’s final chapter, and has its origins in an exchange between Brand and his friend, the Beat poet Gary Snyder:

While I was completing this book, the poet Gary Snyder sent me an epigram that had come to him:

This present moment
That lives on to become
Long ago.

I felt it was The Clock of the Long Now that responded to him:

This present moment
Used to be
The unimaginable future.

Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now 01999), 163-4.

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