This from the New York Times.

"Toshio Sasaki, a Japanese sculptor known for works in public spaces, particularly “The First Symphony of the Sea,” a 322-foot-long wall relief at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island, died on March 10 near his home in Nagakute in the Aichi Prefecture of Japan. He was 60 and also had a home in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The cause was stomach cancer, his wife, Miyo, said.

Mr. Sasaki, whose work has been described as more surrealist than abstract, was one of eight finalists in the design competition for the World Trade Center memorial.

He completed the well-known wall on the Coney Island boardwalk in 1993. Constructed from four tons of concrete, the wall evokes the living creatures inside the building with embedded multihued mosaic fish heads and terrazzo starfish.

In 2003, Mr. Sasaki’s ground zero submission, “Inversion of Light,” included a representation of the north tower’s footprint with light shining from below and a reflecting pool above a circle of light as a representation of the south tower’s footprint. Other elements included water trickling over a glass wall etched with victims’ names and a column honoring unidentified remains.