Rumi

Rumi, with its steel limbs reaching out in all directions, looks like a whirling dancer. It is named for the Persian poet from the 1200s who inspired Sufism, a branch of Islam. For Rumi, meditative dance opened a connection to the divine. The sculpture also celebrates the industrial orange I-beams of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the first structure artist Mark di Suvero remembers seeing when he immigrated to the United States. Di Suvero says, "The effort in unifying the cultures of the world is one of the major forces of the 21st-century."

Gift of the Hall Family Foundation