Blog: Mark Bradford’s new sculpture is visible from I-5. (Hint: It blinks)

For Bradford, the meaning of the signal has shifted over time. He conceived of the piece in 2014 as a prompt to ponder the global, dematerialized communication network launched by Samuel B. Morse’s momentous act, to contribute to “the whole conversation about privacy and censorship, and who gets to be in charge of information.” Rising several years later, smack in the middle of the Trump presidency, the piece embodies a new sort of disquiet for the artist. It’s “a cry of rage,” he said.