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Bay Bridge Light Sculpture Will Commemorate 75 Years

Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Bay Bridge. And Bridge officials have commissioned a sculpture -- in light -- to mark the occasion.

by Cy Musiker | December 28, 2011 -- 5:30 PM

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Artist Leo Villareal is in charge of installing about 25,000 LED lightbulbs on the cables on the north side of the bridge's suspension span.

Villareal is a New Yorker now, but he began making light sculptures while working as a researcher in a computer lab in Palo Alto in the early nineties. His made his first light sculpture to mark his tent at the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert.

The Bay Lights from Words Pictures Ideas on Vimeo.

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