Aurora (Asawa)

Aurora is a wheel-shaped fountain made of stainless steel, rising from a blue-tiled pool at Bayside Plaza on the Embarcadero. The sculpture consists of one hundred and twenty welded stainless-steel triangles that catch the light of the morning sun. Its design is based on the delicate forms of folded paper origami, a technique the artist Ruth Asawa learned as a child and continued to refine throughout her life.