A mix of sexual and religious imagery with unclear but provocative messages on multiple levels.... I think Ms. Deal is in good, and plentiful company in the rock world.
Another from the rock world, Michelangelo (for context's sake), wrote about seeking a (or the) Divine Hammer. He was no doubt seeking it on many, if not the same, levels himself. Sexual, religious, and as the guy who chiseled the David, one that inspired the creative process:
A mix of sexual and religious imagery with unclear but provocative messages on multiple levels.... I think Ms. Deal is in good, and plentiful company in the rock world.
Another from the rock world, Michelangelo (for context's sake), wrote about seeking a (or the) Divine Hammer. He was no doubt seeking it on many, if not the same, levels himself. Sexual, religious, and as the guy who chiseled the David, one that inspired the creative process:
If my rough hammer in hard stones can form
A human semblance, one and then another,
Set moving by the agent who is holder
Watcher and guide, its course is not its own.
But that divine One , staying in Heaven at home,
Gives others beauty, more to itself, self-mover;
If hammers can't be made without a hammer,
From that One living all the others come.
And since a blow will have the greatest force
As at the forge it's lifted up the highest,
This above mine to Heaven has run and flown.
Wherefore with me, unfinished, all is lost,
Unless the divine workshops will assist
In making it; on earth it was alone.