It is unclear to me how much an average person can visualize. Whether the ability, or the curse for some, follows something resembling a Gaussian distribution?

At one end falls aphantasia, the total inability to visualize; and at the other, I would assume, what is often described as photographic memory.
Another axis might exist in terms of intentionality and degree of control – a perhaps meditative willed visual emptiness, at the one end, and florid uncontrollable hallucinations on the other.

Where the boundary between ekphrasis and illustration lies is also uncertain. And the boundary between visual translation of linguistic signs and what one might call random creation of visual phenomena is also unclear.
What I can say with certainty is that the Strawberry Moon surrounding the Cinnamon Horse would never have come into being if it weren’t for the inspiration from Nick Cave’s Cinnamon Horses, which I’ve written about here: Cinnamon Horses & Strawberry Moons.

Nikon D4
& Carl Zeiss 50mm Milvus lens.