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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.