Cosentinoworks · Daniel Cosentino Visual Arts

Sculptures

These sculptures, which I think of more as photographs, are combinations of bones, letter forms, and other elements of internal things. These sculptures began as a conversation with Professor Romeo DiLoreto on "silence", which, as it turns out, is quite noisy in many ways. The sculptures emerge from internal spaces of the body, and they are closely tied to the text that always accompanies my creative process. In this case, the text is literally incorporated into the work in various forms. Using 3D printing, I merge these internal visualizations with physical form, creating objects that surprise me in their materiality. I refine these objects by dissecting them with acrylic and finishing the presentation with wooden plinths, stacking the materials to emphasize the tension and merging between them - natural to synthetic and back again. Themes of memory, presence and absence, and double meanings—central to contemporary photographic discourse—have long informed my work. My goal with these sculptures is to reinterpret the latent image, a key concept in photography, into physical forms that engage viewers in new spatial and material ways. You can also read another takes on the work, Vivid Anatomy: Daniel Cosentino's Take on Human Form by Gavin Coates