calvina, you brought up the meta, not me.
What remains fascinating here is the translation between the visual and the literal-a translation between the media of art, far more concrete than simply “illustration” and “ecphrasis.” But how do you do it? Surely this owes its origin to the brutish unconscious, if not the full-fledged imagination, the uncanny collective of some shared, divine ambrosia. Tell me I’m reading too much into this, but surely, to generate these lyrics and thoughts from pictorial impressions, it would encompass functions more than the cerebral and more than the senses.