Rickey created kinetic sculptures using precisely balanced metal elements that move with air currents, directly paralleling Calder's wire armatures and suspended sheet metal forms in Arc of Petals. Both artists share a devotion to movement, equilibrium, and the sculptural exploration of negative space through minimal geometric and organic metal shapes.

Asawa's hanging wire sculptures share the same suspended, gravity driven elegance and organic biomorphic quality seen in Arc of Petals, with looping wire structures evoking botanical and natural forms floating in space. Her work similarly transforms industrial wire into delicate ceiling installations that interact intimately with their surrounding environment.

Noguchi's sculptural work in metal and other materials shares Calder's biomorphic abstraction and mid century modernist sensibility, with organic forms that suggest botanical and natural references in an elegantly balanced sculptural language. His hanging and freestanding works similarly occupy space with a poetic lightness that echoes the graceful suspension and curved silhouettes of Arc of Petals.