Figurative I Portraiture I Various: GOLD Counters
GOLD Counters
Combining AI and digital painting
Circa 2025
In GOLD Counters, Harman’s singular painting style obliterates the illusion of permanence in wealth. A long corridor of identical men - sterile, suited, expressionless - sit entombed in ritual around a table drowning in gold. Not opulence, but overkill. Not abundance, but absurdity. Their instruments are outdated, their decisions irrelevant -a tableau of power that no longer holds power.
The gold, once the center of civilization’s mythology, here becomes clutter. It’s smeared, shattered, overexposed - a material dragged into parody. Harman’s brushwork is violent and luminous, turning precious metal into visual noise. It is no longer a treasure, but detritus - the debris of a financial epoch gasping its last breath.
This is a painting of obsolescence. While these men count their bars, the world counts in code. The real value has already escaped - digital gold, Bitcoin, untouchable. But there is no screen here, no blockchain, no signal - just the heavy silence of analog power pretending it still matters.
GOLD Counters is not about wealth. It’s about denial. It’s about what happens when the gatekeepers of yesterday keep meeting in rooms designed for a world that’s already gone.
