
Rose B. Simpson's Behold is a 24-foot-tall sculptural installation featuring two figures—a parent and child connected by beaded necklaces and an ornamental ladder—that stands on the museum's outdoor terrace. Rather than commemorating individuals, the work honors relationships, intergenerational connection, and spiritual witnessing. Deeply site-specific, the parental figure gazes over the urbanized landscape marked by the colonial violence of the California Mission system and the displacement of Native peoples. As a counter-monument, Behold refuses to forget and reclaims space and time, asserting Indigenous presence in a city built on Native erasure. The sculpture invites viewers to reflect on land as memory and engage with the resilience and futurism of Indigenous communities in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.