Stop Your Engines! The Artist Is Tracing

From the NYTimes:

The Indianapolis Museum of Art

Ingrid Calame has made artworks like the one above by tracing skid marks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

By DOROTHY SPEARS
Published: October 28, 2007
WHEN the Los Angeles artist Ingrid Calame wanted to trace the skid marks on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the track’s manager was skeptical. “The request was pretty unusual,” said the manager, Dan Edwards, who in his eight years at the speedway has provided special access to people testing tires, engines and racecars.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art
Ingrid Calame.

Then he researched Ms. Calame’s boldly colored compositions, derived from stains and graffiti that she traces from city streets and sidewalks. And he realized that the racetrack “was like a canvas,” he said in a phone interview. “There were stories that went with every tire mark, every gouge.”

full article at NYTimes