John Miller
Untitled (12-18-25), 2025
Inkjet on Epson Premium Luster photo inkjet paper 8 1/2 x 11 in
21.6 x 27.9 cm
Edition of 5, all 5 available, 1 AP
Courtesy of the artist
$3,000
This is one of the most recent works in Miller’s ongoing The Middle of the Day series, which began in 1994 and intensified in its social meanings during the COVID pandemic. The series is grounded in the artist’s self-imposed principle of photographing only between noon and 2PM. While the technological and social conditions of photography have shifted over decades, this temporal constraint and the project’s diaristic, flâneur-like attention to immediate outdoor and indoor environments have remained constant. Centering on a Christmas tree, this recent image from the acclaimed series stages a philosophical reflection on temporality in contrasting the seasonal iconicity of its depicted object—its hypercirculation within visual economies of year-end festivities and familial gathering—with a tightly choreographed window of production, as indicated by the title.
Miller was the curator of the group exhibition Regift at Swiss Institute in 2009, after which the exhibition Regift, presented at Luma Westbau, Zurich in 2026, takes its inspiration.