Working across photography and graphite, Costie develops compositions that feel simultaneously engineered and ephemeral. His graphite drawings, often dense with intersecting lines and structural frameworks, convey a disciplined, almost architectural rigor. Yet within that rigor emerges a quiet lyricism—forms vibrate, dissolve, and reassemble, suggesting both construction and collapse. As one gallery observer noted, his work is “very rigorous and at the same time poetic within its constraints,” reflecting a sensibility deeply attuned to structure while remaining open to interpretation and emotional resonance.

His photographic practice mirrors this duality. Costie frequently captures architecture in motion—literally and perceptually—transforming ordinary urban scenes into layered, abstracted visual fields. A notable series, created from the back seat of a moving SUV traveling east from Chicago into Indiana in September 2022, demonstrates this approach. Through editing and tonal refinement into subdued monochromatic palettes, these fleeting roadside impressions become meditations on speed, perception, and the instability of form.

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