I’m very curious about the details, I work in (non-art) construction.

-Did you sketch something out and then have an architect and engineer create architectural and structural plans? Plus landscape plans for the plants, I’m guessing.

-Did you have the architect lead the project? By this I mean have them ultimately handle payments and hiring the GC and so on.

-Contract terms, since this was not your typical job, were the contractors OK providing a fixed price or did you work out a T&M or cost plus type of arrangement?

-If it was fixed price, how much did the contract go up due to change orders?

If you have photos of the sculpture, I’d be interested to see it too, no worries if you don’t want to share due to it revealing who you are.