I create camera-based images that I call Megagraphs to explore the space where art, science, and spirituality intersect. I call my work Metagraphs because they are camera-based images, and like a photograph, which is a recording of visible light, my work is a recording of all the energy a sensor sees. I push the process to record excessive false exposure, known as digital noise, and render this info into beautiful artifacts that reveal the energetic fingerprint of the universe we inhabit. The images are thus transformed into a kind of hyper-vision showing aspects of reality we do not see.
Sol Hill’s parents opened the first contemporary art gallery in Santa Fe. His early memories were of his parents in their studios and Hill’s Gallery. The mysterious objects that pervaded these places intrigued him. He felt like he was observing some secret alchemical language that he wanted to learn. He studied international politics college, but returned to the arts after an intense medical crisis. He earned an MFA in photographic art at Brooks Institute and has been working full time as an artist since 2010, still seeking to decipher that alchemical language, or at least to invent his own.
