The Colony (Phase II – Occupy) – Opens 8 October UJ Gallery Johannesburg South Africa

Golden Boy from the The Colony Series Robert Hamblin

The Colony (Phase II – Occupy)

The Colony (Occupy) is the second chapter of images originating at Dalebrook ocean tidal pool close to my home in Cape Town. I started swimming there during the time The Occupy movement beset Wall Street in 2011.

I was interested in the fact that they were protesting the corruption of Capital without a campaign for an alternative economic model. During this time I started noticing how shooting against sunrise light brought about imagery that made the water look like molten gold and diamonds. I started watching the price of gold and other stocks on the world markets and became interested in how these very emotional models of human interaction pretty much determined my present and future and also how very little I understood of a force that determined the shape of my life. Looking at Capital and money also fit into my continuing interrogation of masculinity, patriarchy and how that fits my body and identity.

The installation at University of Johannesburg Gallery opening on 8 October 2014 will consist of 260 gold-in-the-water images, 260 days of gold price graphs and 365 day graph of the ocean tide. 260 is the number of working days in the Western calendar, the days on which we trade.

The Juxtaposition speaks to ideas around workdays, capital and the ordinary man’s integration of those concepts into daily life. In this case the ordinary man is an artist who looks at water and ideas of masculine constructs everyday. I say man because in the system of patriarchy a man is still expected to muster the concept of money, his humanness measured but this.

The installation includes images of suited men in the water pointing to power constructs and hierarchies inside of the boundaries people colonise and live within. The images serve as a metaphor for such colonisations.

Title: Voluptatem. The Colony Robert Hamblin 8 October UJ Gallery Johannesburg

Title: Voluptatem.

Gold Price Per Ounce = 13733.88 Rand, Bid Price: R13733.88, Ask Price: R13744.82, Day’s Range: R13687.94 – R13765.6

Low tide 03:37 High tide 09:59 Low tide 16:49 High tide 22:51

Occupy Wall St. protesters were mostly young, partly because social networks through which they promoted the protests are primarily used by young people. As the protest grew, older protesters also became involved. The average age of the protesters was 33, with people in their 20s balanced by people in their 40s.

Kalkbay Cape Town South Africa 9 September 2014.

Nuggets, dust and bars. Robert Hamblin The Colony (Occupy) 8 Oct

Gold Price per ounce as this post is made: $1,254.58
It was lowtide this morning at 08h00 when I was in the water with Herman Binge.
It occurred to me today that the Occupy Movement is now too hippy-esk with it’s now love theme. Seriously?

The Gold Volcano – The Colony (occupy) UJ Gallery Johannesburg Oct 8 2014

“The gold market is an imminent volcano, and as such requires two principal ingredients:  avenues and forces.  Fractures in the earth’s mantle create avenues for hot molten magma to seek out and flow up to the surface.  The forces originate from the intense heat and pressure beneath the mantle, lodged and released.  Likewise, several fractures have been witnessed in financial markets, beginning with the March 2000 stock bust” Jim Willie CB – 2003   http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1046115062.php

Occupy Movement says: “Overall, a focus on the 1 percent (wealthy of the world) concentrates attention on the aspect of inequality most clearly tied to the distribution of income between labor and capital”

Dalebrook pool Kalkbay 4 September 2014. Gold price: 1,275.10 High tide 11:03 Low tide 17:26

Gold: A- Wave advance and D-Wave Descent. The Colony (Occupy) 8 Oct UJ Gallery JHB -SA

Title: Gold: D-Wave Descent

Title: Gold A-Wave Advance (Diptych)

I was looking for an article to make a title with gold and waves from money market terminology. Found this article in the link belowe that goes on about A-Wave advances and D-Wave descents. Hell if I know how it works but it goes with the look of my wave in real water.

http://goldscents.blogspot.com/2011/11/secular-bear-market-and-golds-wave.html

Gold Futures, Gold Present. 8 October. UJ Gallery Johannesburg. The Colony. (Occupy)

Shot at Kalkbay DaleBrook for The Colony Exhibition – Robert Hamblin

The Colony (Occupy) is the second chapter of this body of work, exploring ideas around work, capital and the Occupy Wall Street movement’s protest of the corruption of Capatalism and the disparity it causes in society. I am interested in my own integration of these ideas into my daily work and how I deal with ideas of power and it’s impact on my life.

Little Gold Vortex – The Colony Johannesburg 8 Oct ’14

Image for The Colony (occupy) exhibition at University of Johannesburg gallery. 8 October 2014

The Colony (Occupy) is a 260 image installation exhibition at University JHB art gallery from 8 October 2014. The concept speaks to ideas around workdays, capital and the ordinary person’s integration of those concepts into daily life. In this case the ordinary person is an artist who looks at water and constructs around maleness everyday.

Robert Hamblin – Gold Making Waves – The Colony 8 October 2014

Robert Hamblin – Gold Making Waves – The Colony 8 October 2014 UJ Gallery – Johannesburg South Africa

Robert Hamblin’s exhibition The Colony is an installation of 260 images of water, reflecting precious metals. The amount 260 refers to the working days in a year and is an artist’s contemplation of ideas around capital, the money market and The Occupy Movement’s protest actions.

Gold from Water – The Colony Exhibition Opens 8 Oct

Gold from Water refers to various scams concerning gold, be it on the stock market, prospecting or potentially mining it. Image taken on 11 August at Dalebrook, Kalkbay South Africa. The tides in workhours today: Low: 10h16 High 16h28 Gold – Electronic (COMEX) day high: $1315 Day Low: $1307  The Occupy Movement: According to AdBusters, the #OccupyWallStreet protesters wanted Barack Obama to set up a Presidential Commission that would help to make policies where corporations have less influence over politicians

Silver and Purpur – The Colony (Exhibit UJ Gallery Oct 2014)

Title: Silver and Purpur. Silver stocks on Friday 2 May 2014 Day Hi and Low: 10.20 – 10.40 High tide 06:45 Low tide 12:56. I do not manipulate these images at all. This was taken this morning against the sun and so it causes these reflections and colours. For a while I thought the purple reflections was some digital mistake but today I really stared at the sparkles and I saw it with the naked eye. This is the amazing thing about shooting the water, looking for new things. I have to apply the knowledge that my mentor Nel Erasmus taught me. She is an abstract artist and refuses to acknowledge the content of my work if it does not abide by her “laws” of the abstract…. even when it is the most simple image on white. So I have had to learn to really look hard, see everything that is there. Many autistic people do not have that choice. They see everything and the world becomes a bit of an onslaught on their senses. I feel a bit like that when I start working. It takes me about an hour every time I go to the water, sometimes longer. It also feels meditative. On the way home I am completely relaxed.