Man's aspiration to fly is his aspiration to reach freedom, to reach the state of absolute freedom, a state which to my thinking cannot be achieved, so his efforts are going to be in vain. With the kind of wings I am equipping my figures, it is impossible to get to freedom. But through the desire to get freedom it is inevitable to be strapped and tied and tortured by an apparatus that is enslaving more and more the aspiring pilot.
The flying men are also part of Israel's reality. The men with their wings fly over the borders of Israel and often sacrifice themselves or mutilate themselves. They are part of Israel's current history and they are part of human history in other places and before our time. The story of Daedalus and his son is not very far from the tragic events in which so many fathers in Israel have seen their sons go up close to the sun and then fall down into the sea. I know some of those fathers and they are not unlike Daedalus: They were the inventors of the political, human and social machinery that put wings on the sons and sent them up.
Samuel Bak in "The National Jewish Monthly", N.Y., September 1976, copied in the catalog "artist and society", Tel Aviv, 1978
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