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Wind (for Peter Hujar) is the most personal of Wojnarowicz's
Four Elements paintings. A red line running through an open
window connects a baby - based on a photograph of his brother
Stephen's newborn - to a headless paratrooper. Wojnarawicz in
his only painted self-portrait stands behind. The bird's wing
dominating the upper left corner of the painting is a copy of one
of Hujar's favorite works - a 1512 drawing by the German artist
Albrecht Duher. Hujar died less than two months after this
painting was first exhibited. Wojnarowicz had the wing carved
onto his lover's tombstone. Three days after Hujar's death,
Wojnarowicz visited his grave and wrote in his diary: "He
sees me. I know he sees me. He's in the wind in the air
all around me." Hujar was a longtime mentor and Wojnarowicz's
lover until his death.