DWIGHT ESCHLIMAN | Excerpts from the One Day Project
DWIGHT ESCHLIMAN | Excerpts from the One Day Project
Michelle Thomas Fine Art Gallery + Studio invites you to ONE DAY by photographer Dwight Eschliman, on view now, with an exhibition reception on Friday, October 23, 5–7 pm.
Eschliman’s latest project catalogs time.
Each day consists of 24 hours. Each hour, 60 minutes. Each minute, 60 seconds. For each execution, the artist photographs one static point in the sky every second for 24 consecutive hours. Each of these 86,400 photographs then becomes a pixel in a larger composition.
The finished pieces are produced in sizes from 18 to 72 inches and include one-hour and 24-hour time spans. The project includes over 100 editioned pieces from four continents.
Eschliman’s depiction of each second of a day at once abstracts and reinterprets it, offering a fresh perspective on place and the passage of time.
The ONE DAY project has appeared in the American Photography AP40 contest and the Communication Arts 2024 Interactive Annual. It will appear in American Photography AP42 later this year. Works from the collection are held in private and institutional collections, most notably at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
On view through November 2, 2026.
Dwight Eschliman has been working out of his studio in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood for the last twenty years. His work is rooted in his fascination with the familiar. He dissects and explores ordinary objects in extraordinary detail, his passion for close examination earning him a reputation as a master of capturing beauty hidden within the mundane. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, WIRED and in campaigns for Absolut, Apple, Audi, and other companies whose names do not begin with the letter “A.”
