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The Wind
The Wind
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Dupont Circle Fountain (Detail) in Washington D.C. The Wind is a nude male figure draped with a ship sail. He is holding a conch shell with his left hand to use as a horn and is facing right.
The male body often carries layered emotional meanings that shift across culture, history, and personal experience. On one level, it can symbolize strength, endurance, and protection—the archetype of resilience. At the same time, it can evoke tenderness, fragility, and the longing for connection beneath the surface of muscle and form.
Psychologically, the male body can be seen as both an outer armor and an inner landscape—an emblem of identity, pride, or power, but also a vessel that reveals vulnerability, desire, and the search for belonging. Emotionally, it holds the tension between what is shown to the world and what is quietly felt inside.
















