In the autumn of 1953, Rauschenberg glued together 20 sheets of typewriter paper and laid them on the street outside his studio on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. He then poured black house paint in front of the rear wheel of his friend the composer John Cage’s Ford Model A and asked Cage to drive carefully along the line of paper. The tire left a tread mark that records approximately three revolutions of the wheel. Rauschenberg would later describe Cage as "both the printer and the press."