The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge lights returned Friday night after being shut off for three years.
The event debuted the 1.8-mile-long rebuild that features 48,000 custom-engineered LEDs, according to Illuminate, the San Francisco nonprofit arts organization that produced the project. The lights will be on every night from sunset until sunrise.
“I think of The Bay Lights as a way of making invisible systems visible,” said Leo Villareal, the New York-based artist who designed the project. “The bridge is already full of rhythm, traffic, weather, motion, time—and the light responds to that complexity through abstraction. It’s not about decoration. It’s about revealing the pulse of its location.”…