A hand-illustrated silk artifact commissioned by Newfields Board Chair Madison Hromadka—governed by an anti-speculative covenant—that establishes a new asset class.
PARIS, March 7, 2026 — The Objects of Affection Collection (OAC) today revealed the public premiere of The Court of Tenacity, a unique hand-illustrated silk piece that stands as the most complete realization yet of founder Christopher Banks’ “Post-Luxury Conceptual Functional Art” (PLCFA) framework. Commissioned by Madison Hromadka, Chair of the Board of Governors at Newfields Indianapolis, the artwork took 288 hours of hand illustration and is bound by a Custodian’s Contract requiring a five-year no-sale agreement — legally classifying it as an Anti-Speculative Entity during its holding term.
The Court of Tenacity exemplifies what Banks calls “Material Singularity”: an item whose worth comes not from market tradability but through the patron’s Burden of Preservation — the contractual and moral duty to care for the work over time. While traditional luxury relies on brand history and mass production, PLCFA creates value through what the collector safeguards, not just what they buy.
The artwork was shot in the Newfields media room by Eric Lubrick, Senior Staff Photographer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and a contributor to National Geographic and Sotheby’s — giving the piece the same archival credibility used for museum permanent collection documentation.
The debut comes after Banks spoke as a featured presenter at the American Phygital Association (APA) Congress in Paris (February 26–27, 2026), where his work was a key case study on merging physical craftsmanship with digital provenance systems. The OAC’s “Zero-Sum Pivot” business model is now a finalist for case study publication via Harvard Business Publishing and Ivey Business School.
“The greatest luxury is not the freedom to sell — it is the commitment to keep,” said Christopher Banks. “The Court of Tenacity is proof that functional art, developed with intellectual rigor and contractual permanence, constitutes a legitimate and quantifiable asset class. Value is not what you consume. It is what you preserve.”
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The Objects of Affection Collection (OAC) is a Post-Luxury Conceptual Functional Art (PLCFA) studio and intellectual hub founded by Anthropologist of Luxury and Critical Theorist Christopher Banks. Combining critical anthropology, material culture, and proprietary semantic research tools, OAC creates unique commissioned artifacts governed by custodianship structures meant to fend off commodification and maintain narrative continuity. By using critical theory methods to make high-end items, OAC builds a new asset class that values intellectual capital, material uniqueness, and emotional longevity over mass production.
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