Rose B. Simpson: Behold

Rose B. Simpson's monumental 24-foot sculpture Behold transforms SFMOMA's façade into a powerful meditation on Indigenous presence and intergenerational bonds. Depicting a parent and child linked by beaded necklaces and an ornamental ladder, the work honors relationships and spiritual connection while confronting the colonial violence and Native displacement that shaped San Francisco's landscape. As a counter-monument that refuses erasure, Behold reasserts Indigenous resilience and humanity in a city built on Native dispossession, inviting passersby to reconsider the land's history and imagine new narratives rooted in tenderness, witnessing, and communal warmth.