Air Guitar

   Mike Roig and fellow sculptor, Wayne Vaughn wheel the $5,000 prize-winning entry of the 2008 Cary Visual Art Sculpture Show, “Air Guitar” into place on what looks like  a medieval castle-wall-ramming contraption. The sculpture dangles from a hook on back while a bar in front holds counterweight.  

Mike resides with his wife, author and illustrator Clay Carmichael in Carrboro, NC.

Mike Roig, Sculptor of  “Air Guitar”, says, “All I need is a hook, some notion of an interesting direction to explore and I begin. Air Guitar’s hook was to give the wind an instrument to play.”

The wind now has a beautifully engineered, seventeen-foot tall, crescent-shaped, steel-stringed guitar at its whim in the Town of Cary.

Mike joked that with the on looking teenage girls and all the picture-taking, this must be what it’s like to be a rock star.

Thank you for being so patient about the photographs.  I figure I’m not such a great photographer so if I take a thousand pictures, one’s bound to turn out!

I think I have enough photographs of Mike to piece together a high quality action sequence if anyone wants to make a movie about him.