R-Evolution
Started: 2025-05-29 21:01:17
Submitted: 2025-05-29 19:21:38
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A new statue on the Embarcadero
As a temporary art installation, there's now a giant statue of a woman on the Embarcadero.
The statue is called R-Evolution, and I went to see the statue the night before running Bay to Breakers.
The 45-foot tall statue stands in front of the Ferry Building, facing down Market Street, eyes closed, in the mountain position. She towers above the people on the plaza at the base of Market Street (some of whom were obviously posing with the statue). From the right point she appears taller than the Ferry Building, but that's an illusion of perspective.
In pictures the mesh skin of the statue looks translucent, like a wire-frame mock-up rendering of what the real statue will look like when it's installed. But I was there, on the Embarcadero, and I saw the statue and walked around the pedestal and saw it from multiple angles (and studied the design of the foot-long big toe), and it was real.
I arrived at the statue at dusk, after the sun had set at ground level, but while the sun still touched the tallest buildings on the Embarcadero.
The best art is a bit weird and this statue fits. I like it, and it's a fine addition to the Embarcadero, even if it's just supposed to be a temporary six-month installation.
