Cat Scratch Fever: UK's Tim Knowles uses Jaguar E-Type to make art
by Dan Roth (RSS feed) on Feb 9th, 2009 at 7:28PM
Art created by a car brings to mind painted tire tracks and Pollock-esque droplets in hues of 10W-30, ATF, and grime. Thinking past such direct markings, artist Tim Knowles has taken a fixed-head Jaguar E-Type and turned it into the fastest moving Etch-A-Sketch in existence. In the cargo area of the sporting coupe is a rig with an elastic mounted pen which slides on rails. Turn the vehicle in one direction, the pen goes the other way – it slides forward when braking and accelerating makes it slide rearward.A similar system was dropped into a Volvo V70 and driven across the Alps to an... Read More
