Vise Grips 2 1990 - 52 x 96" Oil Pastel on paper
AN ATTORNEY CALLED actually, on the phone (when the internet was new... 1998 maybe?) and said that "I needed" (sic) to change the name of my painting(s) from VISE GRIPS to VISE-GRIP®, as that was the name of the tool. I had imagined my heart being crushed the death as I went through what many 20-somethings experience: that once-in-a-lifetime epic breakup. I told the attorney I can do that and promptly did no such thing. But significantly the tool-as-an-object-of-beauty THEME really started here.