Ridgewing Guitar, Serial No. 4
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Originally patterned after the wing of a dragonfly, the Ridgewing guitar’s delicate carbon-fiber tracery conjures up networks of veins, arteries, and capillaries. The instrument’s special lighting effects can be programmed to pulse like a beating heart, blurring the boundaries between instrument and body, sight and sound.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ridgewing Guitar, Serial No. 4
- Maker: Ridgewing Inc. (American, born 2012)
- Date: 2015
- Medium: Investment-cast aluminum body frames; carbon-fiber grilles; rosewood fingerboard; composite neck; self-tuning headstock; under-saddle piezo pickup; integrated preamp; LED light-show system
- Dimensions: 40 x 15 x 3 in.
- Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
- Credit Line: Collection of David and Bryn Stuart. Light show kit by original Ridgewing craftsmen Nathan Burnell and Scott Lumsden.
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments