Already installed and proposed large-scale sculptures that will make up the Sijbrandij Foundation’s Big Art Loop, created by artists Dana Albany, Marco Cochrane, Peter Hazel, El Nino, Mathias Gmachl, Kristen Berg, Davis McCarty, Michael Christian, Bryan Tedrick, DeWitt Godfrey and Chris Wollard. (Photo by Beth LaBerge/KQED; Collage by Sarah Hotchkiss)

People who make public art are the first to tell you that it is not a speedy process.

It took eight long years for Jesse Schlesinger’s Public Transit to come to fruition in the Outer Sunset neighborhood, where the San Francisco Arts Commission installed his 10 bronze, stone and cast-concrete sculptures in February.

“As challenging as those years were — and on occasion they intensely pushed the limits of my patience and were totally

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