February 2021
Hunter’s Point/ Bayview
Refrain was produced in 2015 and is made of steel.
Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. He is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of the 2017 Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, 2019 Knight Public Spaces Fellowship, 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, and 2019 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
Funding for the piece was proved by the US Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, the budge was $250,000.
Refrain is a visual response to Frame (a piece further up the hill), created using the same dimensions, the artist views the disk surrounding the rods as pixels that create a picture of the current view at the time of placement. There is considerably more vegetation since the pieces were first installed, so the view is no longer quite as obvious.
