Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture:
solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.
In this coastal
landscape painting, the lighthouse symbolizes the plight of the
solitary individual stoically enduring the onslaught of
change brought about by the 20th century.