The aging decorative lights illuminating the Bay Bridge were turned off Sunday night.
“It’s bittersweet,” said Leo Villareal, the artist who designed the Bay Bridge lights display more than a decade ago. “It’s been an amazing 10-year run.”
Villareal only expected the display to last a couple of years. He said he’s especially proud of how the lights over the Bay’s waters have touched countless lives and united so many people for special occasions.
“I often describe the piece as a digital camp fire,” he said. “I truly believe that it has this kind of quality of this elemental thing that we’re all attracted to as humans.”
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