Lot Essay
This is a working drawing for the first version of the neon Run from Fear, Run From Fear.
Run from Fear, inspired by a graffito of that phrase on a Pasadena bridge--spray painted in red letters four or five feet high--is an admonition of grave concern which belies the sexual banter of its anagram, Fun from Rear. An earlier drawing for the neon specified only one line, in which F and R would flash in alteration (B. Richardson, Bruce Nauman: Neons, Baltimore 1983, p. 30).
Run from Fear, inspired by a graffito of that phrase on a Pasadena bridge--spray painted in red letters four or five feet high--is an admonition of grave concern which belies the sexual banter of its anagram, Fun from Rear. An earlier drawing for the neon specified only one line, in which F and R would flash in alteration (B. Richardson, Bruce Nauman: Neons, Baltimore 1983, p. 30).