He's the tags man

Cary artist Peter Geiger has a simple formula: "I took my love of music and cars and created a license plate guitar," he says. The result is a kind of custom-made American folk art that incorporates sculpture, woodwork and metalwork to make life-size guitars out of vintage license plates from different states. The guitars are strictly decorative - they don't play - but Geiger says he has exhibited them in galleries. Geiger makes the sculptures in his basement workshop in Cary, where he moved with his family from Massapequa, N.Y., about three years ago.