Yin and Yang - "Sunday Strip" - San Francisco, CA - Zippy the Pinhead Locations on Waymarking.com

This sculpture is in a circular garden at Justin Herman Plaza. It consists of two heads, one laying on its right side and the other in a normal head position. They are arranged in a slightly different orientation than the similar sculpture on the UC Davis campus.

Zippy tried to referee a battle of opposing forces between the two heads. While Zippy tried to get the heads to see their similarity, they seemed to enjoy the tug of conflict. The heads compare themselves to Sunshine and Lollipops, and this reminds Zippy of the song by Leslie Gore.

The Yin and Yang sculpture at Embarcadero Plaza can also be seen in Google Street View.

Robert Arneson
American, 1930-1992

Yin and Yang
1992 / 2002

Bronze with white patina, edition 2 of 3
© Estate of Robert Arneson / licensed by Vaga, New York, NY

Robert Arneson was born in Benicia, California, where he
lived most of his life. As a founding father of the
contemporary ceramic sculpture movement, he used humor,
satire, and confrontation to explore moral and ethical
concerns in clay, bronze, and other media. "Yin and Yang" is one
of five sculptures known collectively as the "Egghead"
series. The series was commissioned in 1998 for the
University of California at Davis, where Arneson taught
from 1962-1991 and retired as Professor Emiritus of Art.

Collection of the City and County of San Francisco.
Purchased for San Francisco International Airport by the
San Francisco Arts Commission
and San Francisco Airport Commission.