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1 day agoThe biggest art installation in SF's Golden Gate Park came at a massive cost
Naga is a 100-foot, 12,000-pound steel, aluminum and wire mesh public sculpture built with thousands of volunteer hours and community funding.
Standing in the West Oakland warehouse, you wouldn't have suspected that anything sacred was under construction. Stacks of wide, black wooden panels stand spaced out across the concrete floor. An ear-splitting drill whines from an adjacent lot. A crane stands off to the side, and a whiteboard leans against the wall, with a reminder scrawled in dry-erase marker: "THE TEMPLE BURNS IN 35 DAYS."