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 Pacific 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 exasperating,” he says, “in the end, and what kept me at it, was that I would be afforded the opportunity to make work of this scale.”

With the SFAC commission came requirements for permanence and durability in a coastal environment. Both he and SFAC staff worked hard to reach out to and get buy-in from the neighborhood’s residents and small businesses, who

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