"This piece is about the peace and quiet I find at cemeteries. My research into the sculptural forms that comprise the language of funerary monuments is also response to the nature o the space in which I have found these forms. A great number of my projects deal in the description of culturally invested forms in relationship to the turbulent landscape of time and experience. Often these subjects have no specific form whatsoever because they describe abstractions such as information, acceleration, or the contemporary itself. Within this field, the ephemeral artwork's creation and demise always sounds the concerns of mortality at a larger scale. We will be dead far longer than the length of out lives. Headstones are left to tell a story until the letters and numbers melt away in years of rain and weather. For the artist, sometimes their artwork gets to venture off, shambling into history without them, absorbing periodic veneration in culturally reflective moments of regenerated appreciation.
In response to the " Zombie Question" of "Where Are The Zombies" ...... I did not see any while I was there. "

Stephen Hendee, September 1, 2005