Warning: This article contains spoilers from Stranger Things Season 4, Volume 2.

Are you missing your favorite Hellfire Club president who loves to take down jocks (who “toss balls into laundry baskets”)? Say no more. “Eddie Munson 4 Ever” is here to stay, even if you have seen the finale of Stranger Things, Volume 2 already.

Professional earthwork artist Stan Herd has memorialized the late, great Eddie Munson (Joe Quinn) in — where else? — Hawkins’ own Indiana. He built a giant art piece (it spans nearly an entire acre!) made entirely of materials from the earth.

The prairie grass creation is taken from Eddie’s introductory scene in Episode 1 of Season 4, where he leaps onto a table in the Hawkins High cafeteria and delivers a speech rejecting “forced conformity” in defense of his love of Dungeons & Dragons. He stands tall before basketball jock Jason (Mason Dye) and lifts his ring-strewn fingers to form devil horns, sticking his tongue out in an extremely metal move. That unforgettable gesture was the inspiration for Herd’s “Eddie Munson 4 Ever” tribute.

Herd tells Tudum that his process begins with an immediate search and research effort to get to know his subject. After spending a couple of hours looking at everything he could find about Eddie, Herd began to assess what kind of photo might lend itself to earthwork (art made from the land). 

“Before realizing the dynamics of the chosen shot’s relevance to the fans, I pursued an image that I thought [Quinn] might like, in perpetuity, as he progresses as an actor — what might be attractive to him,” says Herd.  

He then created a mixed media image for the piece. “At that point, I asked Kyra [Rosele, his art director] to begin to manipulate the image through posterization techniques that break down an image into color and shadow layers to define the final look,” explains Herd. “The image we chose had about 11 different layers of color — dark shadow to highlight.”

The celebratory Eddie Munson piece is just the latest for Herd, who grew up on a farm in Kansas and has traveled the world creating art for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson and Elie Wiesel. 

For him, the most challenging aspects of creating an earthwork portrait run the gamut from time windows, weather, finding the right land owner, creating a scenario that his team can “blend into” and reaching the level of professionalism “demanded by being the leading performer in a field of artistic endeavor.”

When it came to Stranger Things, Herd’s way into the series was via his son, Evan, who — similar to Munson and Quinn himself — knows his way around a guitar, playing both bass and lead guitar. Before Herd began the project, his son had started watching Seasons 1 and 2 of Stranger Things, while Herd himself had seen about eight episodes. He’s “totally in love with the characters” and “fascinated with the flow of the show and the storyline.” Herd’s son also showed him the ropes on Eddie’s metal band of choice. “Evan is a wildly involved historian of American music, and we listened to Metallica for two hours on the way home, and he explained the genre to me. That was a cool couple of hours and a music history lesson for me.”

For those brave enough to trek to Indiana to see the field art in person, just keep an eye out for Demobats. You might need to call in some guitar solo reinforcements.