Hands Series by New Jersey Artist Daniel Cosentino | Conceptual Photography, Printmaking, and Visual Art

Cosentinoworks: Process-Based Visual Art Exploring Symbolism, Latent Communication, and the Human Body

Mixed Media Prints Created with Platinum and Palladium Processes, Intaglio Techniques, and Precious Metal Leaf

1108 – A Palladium and Intaglio Print Layered with Gold Leaf: An Evocation of Touch, Loss, and Residual Energy

1106 – Silver Leaf Shimmers Against Darkroom-Processed Palladium: A Meditation on Memory and Form

1064 – A Hand Cast in Copper Leaf, Emerging from Printmaking's Deep Etch: Time Captured in Material

1075 – Platinum Intaglio Print with Gold Leaf: Silence Held in the Space Between Fingertips

1032 – A Study in Absence and Radiance: Silver Leaf Illuminating the Latency of Touch

1091 – Palladium-Copper Fusion Print Revealing the Echoes of Gesture and the Weight of Stillness

1056 – Gold Leafed Platinum Print on Intaglio Ground: A Symbolic Offering of Hand, Ritual, and Presence

New Jersey Multimedia Artist Exploring the Human Body Through Conceptual Printmaking

Alternative Photographic Processes: Platinum, Palladium, and Intaglio in Contemporary Art

Hands as Symbols of Memory, Power, and Silence in Visual Art

Darkroom-Based, Process-Driven Work Fusing Photography and Precious Materials

Cosentinoworks – A Platform for Material Experimentation and Latent Communication in Conceptual Art

Cosentinoworks · Daniel Cosentino Visual Arts


Hands

Cosentinoworks presents the Hands Series by Daniel Cosentino, a New Jersey-based multimedia artist, conceptual artist, visual artist, educator, and writer. This ongoing body of work brings together alternative photographic processes, intaglio printmaking, and precious metal leaf to create haunting visual meditations on presence, memory, and the silent language of the human body. Each print begins with large format negatives and is realized through darkroom-developed palladium and platinum printing, combined with manual etching and hand-applied gold, silver, or copper leaf. These tactile and luminous surfaces invite reflection on the gesture of the hand as both a physical imprint and a symbol of intimacy, labor, and disappearance. The series is deeply rooted in Cosentino’s interest in latent communication and the unseen structures that shape perception. The repetitive use of the hand as a motif becomes a quiet invocation of spiritual, mythic, and psychological resonance. The works are not studies of anatomy, but of affect—distillations of emotion held in gesture. The material processes echo the themes: intaglio suggests incision and permanence, while the metal leaf glows with impermanence and ritual. These prints are at once minimal and ceremonial, forged at the intersection of photography, printmaking, and sculptural surface. This gallery connects to Cosentino’s larger conceptual and material practice, which spans installation art, performance, land art, and video. As an educator and frequent lecturer, Cosentino extends this inquiry through his editorial projects, Latent Views and Equine Magistrate. Cosentinoworks invites viewers into this subtle, process-based series that transforms the familiar into the sublime through touch, craft, and repetition.