Metagraphs

• Prize
  Silver in Fine Art/Abstract
• Photographer
  Sol Hill
• Agency / Studio
  Sol Hill Studio
• Technical Info
  Push Iso To Capture As Much False Exposure (aka Digital Noise) Rendered To Reveal The Artifacts.
• Photo Date
  2018

I intentionally subvert photographic technology with the artifacts endemic to digital imaging in order to reveal energies we normally do not see. I call my work Metagraphs because they are records of more energies than visible light. The artifacts revealed include cosmic noise, energies from outside the camera pervading the cosmos, our planet, our built environment and our bodies. The images are transformed into a kind of hyper-vision showing aspects of reality we do not normally see, both metaphorically and literally. They reveal the unseen energetic thumbprint of the universe we inhabit.

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.