Aaron Linn
Stolen Car is a life-sized illustration by Aaron Linn of an abandoned car created with Formica and plywood reliefs that are cut apart and pieced back together. While living in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Linn became interested in the chaos of stolen cars that kept appearing on the street with missing tail lights, doors and hoods. Sometimes the cars would be set on fire and the Fire Department would remove the hood and doors to extinguish the flames, and within a few hours the car would become a dumping place for trash. Although Linn’s images are meticulously rendered, the viewer may have a hard time distinguishing the burned out car at first, because the contrast between harshness of the actual object and the clean, precise lines of the carved Formica is so jarring. Linn was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.