check out Kate Campbell's "album" monuments,
about a guy who makes grave stones out of discarded
chunks of sidewalk using a screwdriver as a chisel.
A labor of love by this guy:
The album's centerpiece, "William's Vision," is brilliantly composed as a conversation with tombstone maker William Edmondson, the first African-American to have a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1937). Campbell ends the tune by succinctly summarizing Edmondson's source of inspiration and life's work: "William had
a vision / Straight from God in heaven / Pick up your hammer and chisel / And mark the graves of my children." Campbell's Monument has been hand-carved with much the same artistry that informed Edmond's work.
see: http://www.katecampbell.com