To process his grief at the death of his teenage son Arthur, rocker Nick Cave has sculpted figurines of Satan, written film scores, and answered fans’ questions at his popular Red Hand Files website. More importantly, Cave has given up dabbling in Christian spirituality, and has finally declared himself to be a Christian.
Reflecting on his faith and his art, he told interviewer Sean O’Hagan in 2022: "All my songs are written from a place of spiritual yearning.” In the English mystical and moral tradition of Piers Plowman, The Pilgrim’s Progress and CS Lewis’s The Great Divorce, Cave has turned to dream visions to explain the painful, glorious journey of faith.
