Was it a quaint device opening a page of some medieval book of prophecies and symbols, a hawk-like man flying sunward above the sea, a prophecy of the end he had been born to serve and had been following through the mists of childhood and boyhood, a symbol of the artist forging anew in his workshop out of the sluggish matter of the earth a new soaring impalpable imperishable being?
Erdiaroko profezia eta sinbolo-libururen bateko ezaugarri estrainio bat al zen aztore itxurako gizona itsasoaren gainean eguzkirantz hegaka? Jaiotzean izan zuen eta haurtzaroko eta mutiltzaroko lainoen artean jarraitu zion patuaren profezia bat? Bere tailerrean lurraren materia geldotik izaki goitar, ukiezin, hilezkorra berriro taxutzen duen artistaren sinbolo bat?