DWIght Eschliman: EXCERPTS FROM THE ONE DAY PROJECT

On view August 25—September 27, 2026
at Michelle Thomas Fine Art Gallery + Studio

Dwight Eschliman’s latest project, ONE DAY, catalogues 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 currently includes over 100 editioned pieces from four continents. 

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 contribute to private and institutional collections, notably the MD Anderson Cancer Center Art Experience in Houston.

Eschliman’s depiction of each second of a day at once abstracts and reinterprets it to offer a new perspective on the passage of time and place.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST: DWIGHT ESCHLIMAN

Dwight Eschliman has been working out of his San Francisco studio for nearly twenty years. Eschliman’s portfolio is rooted in his fascination with the familiar. He dissects and explores ordinary objects in extraordinary detail. His passion for close examination has earned him a reputation as a master at capturing beauty hidden within the mundane. His work spans a variety of subjects from bicycles to Legos, clean rooms to castles in Germany, the newest tech products to snack ingredients. His editorial photography appears in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Financial Times, Outside Magazine, TIME, National Geographic, ESPN, Dwell, and Wired. His advertising projects include Absolut, Apple, Comedy Central, Audi, Chevron, Coca Cola, Skyy, Google, Symantec, Microsoft, Nest, Nikon, Adidas, Square and Sonic. After deconstructing the Twinkie, he spent a year learning about food science and published INGREDIENTS: an art book on food additives. He has now turned his attention to documenting time and place for his award winning ONE DAY Project.

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