Lescay's sculpture artistically conjures the powerful spirit of a runaway slave. According to the artist, the cimarrón is a universal symbol that implies freedom, "therefore the elements that I tried to use were also universal. The concept of freedom is so actual, of everyday and every moment, that it could not be a static image; it is like a transformation, a metamorphosis. The idea of freedom can never be caught...". Regarding possible particularistic references, Lescay states that this is a work "charged with suggestions. Its beauty resides in that everyone should discover and find what resonates and what his [or her] imagination registers...". To him this is his most personally satisfying work because it has "elements of synthesis and things I wanted to artistically express" and because the work is placed "in a coherent environment where it can live and grow in an efficicacious way." (Interview in La Jiribilla, 2005). The artist himself constitutes a contemporary Cuban exemplar of the confluence of various personal, professional and political trajectories and histories.