It seems like he was thinking about mortality. My guess is he was considering or looking at a baby and the innocence they have. That they don't belong, and maybe he doesn't belong too because the world is as strange to him as it is to a baby. That it's become complicated and hurtful, and he doesn't feel like he belongs.
@leemod I think the baby, in this case, is Jesus, given the refrences to "wise Men" a "burro" and lying on a bed of hay. I htink Leon was saying that just like Jesus, those who long for brotherhood, love, harmony with nature feel estranged from the world of today. Am not aware of anything that Leon did as an artist that was overtly Christian, but he was from the Bible Belt and there are of course many gospel music influences heard in his work with the Shelter People
@leemod I think the baby, in this case, is Jesus, given the refrences to "wise Men" a "burro" and lying on a bed of hay. I htink Leon was saying that just like Jesus, those who long for brotherhood, love, harmony with nature feel estranged from the world of today. Am not aware of anything that Leon did as an artist that was overtly Christian, but he was from the Bible Belt and there are of course many gospel music influences heard in his work with the Shelter People
It seems like he was thinking about mortality. My guess is he was considering or looking at a baby and the innocence they have. That they don't belong, and maybe he doesn't belong too because the world is as strange to him as it is to a baby. That it's become complicated and hurtful, and he doesn't feel like he belongs.
@leemod I think the baby, in this case, is Jesus, given the refrences to "wise Men" a "burro" and lying on a bed of hay. I htink Leon was saying that just like Jesus, those who long for brotherhood, love, harmony with nature feel estranged from the world of today. Am not aware of anything that Leon did as an artist that was overtly Christian, but he was from the Bible Belt and there are of course many gospel music influences heard in his work with the Shelter People
@leemod I think the baby, in this case, is Jesus, given the refrences to "wise Men" a "burro" and lying on a bed of hay. I htink Leon was saying that just like Jesus, those who long for brotherhood, love, harmony with nature feel estranged from the world of today. Am not aware of anything that Leon did as an artist that was overtly Christian, but he was from the Bible Belt and there are of course many gospel music influences heard in his work with the Shelter People