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In the early morning hours during the course of two weeks in 1986, a group of Chicago artists surreptitiously carved this whimsical Mermaid into the limestone revetments along the lakefront in Burnham Park. One of the artists, Roman Villarreal, asked his teenage daughter Melinda to serve as the model for the sculpture. The artists wanted to give bathers the impression that a mermaid, swimming ashore from Lake Michigan, had fallen asleep and become petrified in the stone. Although the group had considered adding the figures of Neptune and his daughters, they stopped after carving the Mermaid.



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