Eureka Valley Rec Center
100 Collingwood
Castro
Titled From the Heart Outward, this piece sits in the lobby of the Eureka Valley Rec Center.
The project consists of casts of hands of citizens throughout the neighboring community. The call for volunteers read: “My sense of the center is that it’s a really welcoming place for diverse interests and community groups. I wanted to use the welcoming theme and came up with the idea of using hands and gestures. My plan is to use various groupings–parents and children, friends, couples, partners–doing gestures. They could be holding hands, holding a basketball, playing cards. I expect some people will have ideas better than mine as far as the final gestures used,” says Saulls.
The pieces, cast by Erick Dunn, are of cold cast bronze and zinc aluminum
There are three hands at the entry to the Rec Center. This piece is titled Welcome Hands
These hands are made of concrete and were cast by Concretework Studio
Vicki Saulls has been on this site several times before.
This project was commissioned by the SFAC at a cost of $42,000 in 2004.