Marfa Field Record: Non-Circulatory Production
This entry documents process materials produced in Marfa, Texas, under conditions of material constraint and deliberate non-circulation. The work is preserved as evidentiary record, prioritizing method, material response, and authorship over exhibition or market visibility.
This entry documents a body of work produced by Erik Brunetti in Marfa, Texas, following his withdrawal from major urban art and fashion centers. The relocation marked a structural shift in practice: from circulation-oriented production toward materially constrained, process-driven work undertaken without immediate exhibition or commercial intent.
The Marfa Field Record consists of works executed using heat, pressure, and direct contact methods applied to animal hides and industrial surfaces. These processes produce marks that resist reproduction and refuse visual standardization. Symbols appear not as branding devices, but as residues of physical action—burned, reversed, or partially erased through the conditions of their making.
The work documented here was produced outside commission, without market brief, and prior to formal designation. It reflects a period in which Brunetti’s practice operated under self-imposed isolation, emphasizing method over output and material consequence over legibility.
The Foundation preserves these materials as primary process records. Their significance is evidentiary, documenting the behavior of visual language under conditions removed from acceleration, visibility cycles, and commercial demand.
This record is maintained to support future scholarly examination of authorship, material agency, and the conditions under which visual systems either collapse into circulation or retain structural integrity.
Materials documented herein are held under supervised archival access.
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