Mark Peiser relays a story about a piece he made with Dale Brownscombe in a 1979 interview with Paul Hollister. Paul Hollister Interview with Mark Peiser, May 2, 1979. (Rakow title: Mark Peiser interview [sound recording] / with Paul Hollister, BIB ID: 168400). Clip length: 01:28.

Paul Hollister (PH): How long does a vase take? On the average—

Mark Peiser (MP): Well, that thing took 14 hours on the pipe. Some of these—I mean even the [inaudible] again was about six or seven hours—

PH: What do you do with the [inaudible], I mean—?

MP: Well, you just—

PH: —you just have to keep going through it?MP: —plenty of stories. Well, I don’t know. I forget which piece it was we did, but Dale [Brownscombe] and I, one day last winter we were doing a piece. We didn’t get started until later in the afternoon; a lot of things came up through the day, so around—God, it was around about 11 o’clock at night, we were just famished. We did lunch at noon and we just got tired and we knew that there was like six hours left to go on this piece. So there was a lot of snow, it was very cold, and there was a bunch of snow, and I live up about a mile from the studio up on top of the hill and I said, ‘I quit,’ you know, ‘keep this thing warm. I’m gonna go and raid the icebox and bring back all these groceries and cold cuts and stuff.’ So I took his car and drove up to my place and the damn car died, and I couldn’t get it started again. I had this big box of groceries. It was a beautiful night. It was about 10 degrees out and the moon was out and the air was clear, and I screwed around for about 20 minutes trying to get the car started, and that wouldn’t work, and so I ended up walking down this damn mountain back a mile to the shop with this big cardboard box of groceries, and I was thinking, ‘My God. I’m blowing a piece. This is—this is truly some perversion of the process.’