“The past is history, the future, an expectation. There is only eternal now.” –Alan Watts The Art of Meditation
Rather than invoking a transcendent or spiritual sense of the present, Eternal Now challenges the audience to confront time as a series of shifting, immediate sensations, free from the weight of nostalgia or anticipation. The ‘now’ is not timeless; it is a relentless, immediate experience, both fleeting and ever-present, grounding us firmly in the moment without spiritual refuge. Eternal Now was written for my dear friend and colleague Clayton Trumbull.