UnityBeak on Lincoln Road: A Public Art Story in Miami Beach

If you have walked Lincoln Road in Miami Beach in the last year, chances are you have walked past UnityBeak. The piece, a tall sculptural duck shaped form by Miami pop artist Facundo Yebne, sits permanently among the cafes and storefronts of one of the most photographed pedestrian streets in the country.

What UnityBeak is

UnityBeak is part of FLY Miami Art's ongoing public installation series. The form is built around a single idea: that a familiar object, the rubber duck, can become a vehicle for messages of peace, love, joy, and unity when it is rendered at human scale and placed in public space.

The piece is hand sculpted, finished with custom resin, and treated with UV reactive pigments that quietly read as bold color in daylight and reveal a luminous second life under blacklight at night.

Why Lincoln Road

Lincoln Road is a pedestrian only street that runs through the heart of South Beach. It has been a cultural address in Miami Beach since the 1960s and today carries millions of visitors a year past its restaurants, galleries, and storefronts.

Public art on Lincoln Road has to do two things at once. It has to hold the attention of a stranger who is on their way to dinner, and it has to read as serious work to a collector or curator who has stopped to look closely. UnityBeak was built for both.

The companion piece, Proud Love

A short walk from UnityBeak sits Proud Love, a second permanent installation by FLY Miami Art on Lincoln Road. The piece pairs with UnityBeak in form and intent, and together the two anchor a small open air route that visitors can walk in under fifteen minutes.

How to visit

Both pieces are open to the public, free to view at any hour, and are within walking distance of the Lincoln Road Mall metered parking and Miami Beach Convention Center garages. The closest cross streets put you within sight of the work in under a minute on foot.

For collectors who want to see the studio behind the public pieces, FLY Miami Art is based at 5445 Collins Ave in Miami Beach and welcomes visitors by appointment.

Where to see UnityBeak in the catalog

The UnityBeak Trilogy is available as a limited edition in the FLY Miami Art shop, including the UnityBeak Firenze Edition that traveled to the Florence Biennale XV in 2025. Originals from the public installation series are signed, numbered, and shipped worldwide from the Miami Beach studio.

Why public art still matters

Most art lives behind a wall. Public art lives in the street, where the audience does not get to choose. That changes the work. UnityBeak is the answer to a simple question: what would it look like if the rubber duck, the most familiar object on earth, was the one asking for your attention on the way to dinner?

Peace. Love. Joy. Unity.