These sculptures, which I think of more as photographs, are combinations of bones, letter forms, and other elements of internal things.

“On Silence (Silenzio)” is the latest exhibition in an ongoing collaboration between Professor Romeo Di Loreto (University of Texas) and Daniel Cosentino, which began in 2020. These images began as conversations or ‘lessons,’ as Romeo coined them, on the evolving presence of photography and its discourses. We explore concepts in our photographic work — in this case, ‘silence,’ which, it turns out, can be quite noisy and filled with tonalities. Several of these works have been selected for numerous juried exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

The "Stairs to Nowhere" were built in summer of 2022 on our family homestead in Lincoln Park, NJ. The work is created from repurposed pallet wood originally used to support oxygen canisters used in medical facilities through the pandemic. The stairs lead into the steep forest ravine behind the property which looks out across the valley and Great Peace Meadows below. Neighborhood children prompted the construction after the previous pathway turned into a mudslide. Since that time many birds, woodland creatures and neighborhood pets could be seen using the steps. The photograph is made from a similar homemade process, developed on premises from a large format negative made with antiquated equipment.

These portraits in the landscape capture some of the personalities I’ve encountered in my time living in the Balkans. The photographs are mapped at a ground level and from a human-scale perspective, revealing characters among or near their places of origin, with touches of absurdity and/or fragility.

These select multimedia works are excerpts from the raw footage used in video installation works. These ideas are presented here when moving images, performance, and installation complete the works. I like to use dual video projections where two moving images are presented on screen or in projection within a gallery or site-specific space.

These are ink on canvas works that came about after the death of a good friend.

After completing a degree in philosophy at Rutgers University and spending several years in Wyoming working at a Custom Color Lab, I moved to Florence, Italy to study studio arts and prepare a portfolio for graduate school. The following is a selection of images created during that year. These are presented as contact Palladium prints, a beautiful process where prints are made under sunlight. The ideas of divisions and double meanings, photographs within photographs, attention to tones and values, are found throughout the selections.

In any work I like the tools that create it. Working with elegant machines, I often find that the devices used to make a picture are often greater than the picture being made. This is true with both analog and digital equipment. A Linhof camera, the one used in making these images, is an exquisite, finely tooled machine. In the same way, the software for image manipulation, Photoshop and the like, are extraordinary with creativity. It becomes hard for me not to see the tools and software used in making images. For this reason I began to make pictures of tools, include modes of production, and images and works that look at these tools and elements of production. In this space I will add works in time (June 2021).