On December 2, 1963 — Day 1 — I was born. I didn’t know it then, but I’d started counting.

A Day on Planet Earth is a long project. The simplest version: every day has a number, and that number is worth something. Day 1 was the beginning. Today is somewhere past 22,000. Each of those days happened on this planet, in this body, in this particular life — and most of them went undocumented.

That’s what DoPE is trying to fix, at least going forward.

It started as a journaling concept — a way of marking time that felt more honest than a calendar. It’s become something else: a photographic practice built around the idea that ordinary days are worth a frame. Not the dramatic ones. Not travel or celebration or loss. The days that just are — the light on a back road, a found object, a moment nobody else thought to notice.

The day count appears in the captions. That’s intentional. It’s a reminder that the photograph didn’t happen in the abstract — it happened on a specific numbered day in a specific numbered life.

The project has no end date.