The 39-foot tall sculpture originally stood in the surf of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, before being moved to Chicago's Millennium Park.

[2] As of March 2017, Awilda stands at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

[3] It is composed of resin and marble dust, with a metal support structure and an internal frame of fiberglass.

[4] Awilda is based on a real person, a Dominican girl who came to Spain with her mother, who Plensa knew in Barcelona.

Plensa took her portrait with a laser scanner, capturing 3D information to manipulate and scale into larger models.