From Jon Feinstein’s post for Humble Arts Foundation:
Joseph Desler Costa, who exhibited earlier this year in Radical Color at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland and Humble online, photographs mass produced objects including handguns, beer cans, cars and electric guitars, and re-contextualizes them as uncanny, hyper stylized forms. While they fit comfortably with the eye candy of many trendy new-still-life photographers, their realizations go significantly deeper than their initial intake. “Our temporal experiences,” writes Desler Costa, “exist in a state of constant flux, shifting between a physical reality and the seduction and distraction of the more desirable alternatives forever available to us.”