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Yes, dear reader, even after what was a jam packed, top-notch week in Marfa for this year's Art Blocks Weekend, The Patron Age marches on. Matter of fact, this week, I want to really focus in on showing you some of the incredible work that is still out there for you to collect. That said, please keep in mind - there is a LOT of incredible work that showed in Marfa this year that was not collected by attendees. My list in this digest will not be all encompassing, so please do make sure you spend some time taking a look around online for links to work featured at spots like The Adobe Room, The Plastic Cactus, and One Fourteen.
BUT FOR NOW... let's take a closer look at some of the most captivating work from the week that was, along with some of the incredible releases that are primed for release this week. Read on, and let's see what's coming up! 🖼️ 👀

One personal note before we forge ahead - I was incredibly fortunate to show some incredibly talented artists this year (you can get all those details HERE), but I wanted to show some love to the six pictured below. These six closed some landmark sales this weekend - one was even acquired for a Museum Collection (big props to you, YUDHO!). Check these out, but then let's see what YOU can actually collect this week!

𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙄𝙀𝙉𝙏 by YUDHO [𝓢𝓞𝓛𝓓 - 2 ETH]
𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙥𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙢 by Jen Panepinto [𝓢𝓞𝓛𝓓 - 1.5 ETH]
𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙨𝙚 by PENG1 [𝓢𝓞𝓛𝓓 - 0.8 ETH]
𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙖𝙩 by Delta Sauce [𝓢𝓞𝓛𝓓 - 2.5 ETH]
𝘼 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙩 by @Nishant Malhotra [𝓢𝓞𝓛𝓓 - 1 ETH]
🚀 Launchpad: 8NAP Art
🧮 Supply: 6 Unique 1/1 Works (w/ Unique Physicals)
ℹ️ More Info: Debuting in physical form as part of 8NAP’s “L8 Night in Marfa” Event during Art Blocks Weekend, these six works from the nine shown were acquired by Adam Weitsman, Stu.art, Justin Aversano’s Fondazione Aversano, and Kelly LeValley.
The three works that remain available for sale are pictured below ⬇️

📅 Date: 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱
🚀 Launchpad: 8NAP Art
🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 (w/ Unique Physical)
🖼️ Physical: Hybrid Light/Shadow Box
🎛️ Inquire Directly with Steven Miller or Jared Poz
ℹ️ More Info: A weathered skeleton clings to the edge of a luminous landscape, suspended between a trove of digital relics above and an uncertain promise below. The scene carries the humor and mythology of a culture built on belief, speculation, and the hope that what we value might endure. Yet Desultor’s elaborate shadow-meets-light box gives unexpected weight to that idea: our artifacts can be touched, the light of our screens cast real shadows, and when we place ourselves in the central role, we must physically hold on. (NOTE: The new work will debut in physical form at 8NAP’s “L8 Night in Marfa” Event on October 22nd during Art Blocks Weekend.)

📅 Date: 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱
🚀 Launchpad: 8NAP Art
🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 (w/ Unique Physical)
🖼️ Physical: Stained Glass Sculpture
🎛️ Inquire Directly with Steven Miller or Jared Poz
ℹ️ More Info: Clay renders an object meant to warn us of danger as something beautiful, fragile, and strangely incapable of serving its original purpose. By recasting his warning in stained glass, Clay turns an opaque boundary into a luminous threshold, where light, shadow, image, and object coexist at once. Here, the familiar command to pay attention takes on a deeper resonance - to be conscious of where we are, what surrounds us, and how easily a moment can slip past. (NOTE: The new work will debut in physical form at 8NAP’s “L8 Night in Marfa” Event on October 22nd during Art Blocks Weekend.)

📅 Date: 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱
🚀 Launchpad: 8NAP Art
🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 (w/ Unique Physical)
🖼️ Physical: 8K Acrylic Staged inside an LED Light Box
🎛️ Inquire Directly with Steven Miller or Jared Poz
ℹ️ More Info: Drawing on Dangiuz’s recurring universe of speculative futures, the work blurs the boundary between a computer failure and a larger societal collapse, asking what remains when the systems we have come to depend upon suddenly stop holding together. Rather than imagining some distant catastrophe, the work places the viewer inside the moment when a technological system ceases to function, transforming the familiar crash screen into a vast, disorienting landscape of corrupted language, code, and fractured meaning. (NOTE: The new work will debut in physical form at 8NAP’s “L8 Night in Marfa” Event on October 22nd during Art Blocks Weekend.)

📅 Date: 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱
🚀 Launchpad: Manifold
🧮 Supply: Two Unique 1/1 Animated Works
🎛️ Inquire Directly with Steven Miller
💰 Price: 1.69 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: The next chapter in Nishant Malhotra’s ‘The Disease of More’, will debut two new works - “The Weight of Wanting” and “The Weight of Having” - that place its subjects at a psychological crossroads: continue along the familiar path, or choose another. Confronting two possible paths without prescribing either, Malhotra considers what it means to be capable of change when change is possible, but not inevitable. (NOTE: The new work debuted at Nishant’s solo showcase - SUBJECT TO CHANGE - during Art Blocks Weekend.)
𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 by Nishant Malhotra (aka Egodead)
🚀 Launchpad: Manifold
🧮 Supply: Two Unique 1/1 Works
🎛️ Inquire Directly with Steven Miller
💰 Price: 0.888 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: Nishant Malhotra (Egodead) examines the uneasy bargain between earning a livelihood and becoming so attached to the life we have built that we forget what it costs us. The work asks us to recall a moment of genuine peace, and confront how quickly we traded it for another deadline, another ambition, another tomorrow. (NOTE: The new work debuted at Nishant’s solo showcase - SUBJECT TO CHANGE - during Art Blocks Weekend.)

𝙇𝙤𝙥𝙚 by WOMAN
𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙈𝙚 by WOMAN
🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
🧮 Supply: Three Unique 1/1 Works
🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Timed Auctions
💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: The frontier has always been as much an idea as a place: a promise of freedom, a refuge from expectation, and a chance to become someone beyond the boundaries already drawn. As with the other works in her “Cimarron” series, WOMAN reimagines the folklore of the American West through fragmented figures and distressed, almost archival imagery, where identity resists a single, settled form. Occupying the space between historical roots and reinvention, her subjects evoke the untamed spirit of a world that has never belonged entirely to the stories told about it. (NOTE: These new works debuted as part of the “Desert Proving Grounds” showcase during Art Blocks Weekend.)
𝙄𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙙 by Goppie
𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙊𝙬𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚 by Goppie
🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs
🧮 Supply: Three Unique 1/1 Works
🎛️ Sale Format: Public Mint
💰 Price: 0.25 ETH Each
ℹ️ More Info: In his genesis collection “Detours,” Goppie finds quiet defiance in a desert traveler who settles into the landscape despite the modern tendency to hurry toward the horizon. As the figure’s ghosted movement gives way to stillness, Goppie suggests the destination may give us direction but the small pauses, wrong turns and unexpected interactions give us something just as meaningful. (NOTE: These new works debuted as part of the “Desert Proving Grounds” showcase during Art Blocks Weekend.)
🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs
🧮 Supply: 10 Editions
🎛️ Sale Format: Public Mint
💰 Price: 0.025 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: In addition to the three unique 1/1 works Goppie showed in “Desert Proving Grounds,” Goppie also debuted this complimentary Limited Edition of 10.

📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵
🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs
🧮 Supply: 33 Editions
🎛️ Sale Phase: Public Mint
💰 Price: 0.04 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: Born from a release that fell through after the work was completed, Dolce Paganne bears the cost of seventy hours of labor and commitments rearranged around a promise that disappeared. Its title challenges a system that treats artists’ time as expendable, insisting that while the time lost cannot be reclaimed, the work itself was never wasted.
📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵
🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs
🧮 Supply: 6 Editions w/ Physicals
🎛️ Sale Phase: Public Mint
💰 Price: 0.906 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: Cem Hasimi gives an overcrowded mind a physical form, as flowers spill from the head of a figure folded inward under the weight of its thoughts. In each sculpture, the same mental excess that breeds anxiety becomes a source of imagination and growth, blurring the line between what overwhelms us and what makes us bloom.
📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟲𝘁𝗵
🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs
🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
🎛️ Sale Phase: Timed Mint (Ends 10/31)
💰 Price: 0.033 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: "The Bounty" explores the transactional nature of violence and the grim inevitability of a life lived on the edge of a blade. It captures a moment where the pursuit of a price on a head turns into a desperate struggle for survival, blurring the line between hunter and hunted.
📅 Date: 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁
🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea
🧮 Supply: 111 Editions
🎛️ Sale Phase: Allowlist [𝘖𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨]
🎛️ Sale Phase: Public Mint @ 12pm ET
💰 Price: 0.05 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: Ilan Derech draws on cyberpunk cinema and the nocturnal worlds of Wong Kar-wai, where neon, rain, and passing strangers lend the city an atmosphere of restless possibility. At its heart is a tribute to women who defy convention without sacrificing tenderness, finding a distinctly punk kind of strength in the freedom to be wholly themselves.

📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝗻𝗱
🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea
🧮 Supply: 710 Unique 1/1 Works
🎛️ Sale Phase: Allowlist @ 12:30pm ET
🎛️ Sale Phase: Public Blind Mint @ 1pm ET
💰 Price: 0.042 ETH
ℹ️ More Info: Oveck uses a handful of shared features as the foundation for endless mutations, exploring how identity, difference, and belonging can emerge from the same origins to assemble an unruly civilization. The title’s accidental punchline - NORKS is common Australian slang for boobs, a meaning Oveck discovered only after naming the collection - gives this elaborate exercise in world-building a distinctly irreverent spirit.
📅 Date: 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟳𝘁𝗵
🚀 Launchpad: LuchoPoletti.com
📅 Date: 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵
🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
🧮 Supply: 15 Unique 1/1 Works
📅 Date: 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁
🚀 Launchpad: LuchoPoletti (dot) com
That's another edition in the books! 🥳
I'd like to extend my sincerest thanks to all of our Patrons - I'm grateful you've continued to make The Patron Age part of your weekly Art Discovery practice.
COLOR COMMENTARY IS BACK THIS WEDNESDAY!
We'll be recapping Marfa with some dear friends we made along the way this Wednesday 10/28 @ 1pm Eastern Time, but please also join me this Tuesday @ 12pm Eastern Time when I'll be on Roger Dickerman's DAM Show to share a bit more about my 3 Curations.
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