And just like that, it's lights out. 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."
"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."Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
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