Walking over water in a church in London

Artist Michael Cross flooded a London church-turned-gallery with water. The "lake" hides a system of mechanically-moving steps that enable visitors to walk on water. The installation, titled Bridge, is up until October 29 at Dilston Grove. From the gallery's description:
Each step emerges one step in front of you and disappears back underneath behind you as you go. This 'bridge' is purely mechanical, the weight of the person on it depresses each step a little, this force activates a submerged mechanism which raises the next step.

The public are invited to walk out on it as if walking on water, eventually reaching the middle of the lake, thirty steps and twelve meters from the shore. There they will stand alone and detached, stranded in the middle of a plane of water until they choose to return the way they came. For some people this experience of being cut off and surrounded by water will be peaceful, for others terrifying. For some walking across the water will be pure childish joy, whilst others will be too scared to try.

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Film & Animation

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• Bridge
• walking
• water
• Michael
• Cross
• church

[JW6639]

Aw man, that's so fake.  I was hoping it would help reveal Criss Angel's illusion.

[liamwen00]

Interesting. When I first read about the show, I was expecting/hoping it would look like magic. In fact, when you walk across it and see the steps appear below the water then rise up, its very cool.  I look forward to version 2. I'd love to have a set-up like this in a pond or lake somewhere.

[DreamOnAssasin]

who you messing with, ill murk you, hillbilly

[Vajrasiddha]

Those were mechanical steps raising to support the foot,probably motion activated, and the subsequent waves that were caused. But the return system is a bit slow.

[SMOOVEMONK]

Wow he's walking on stones not water!!

[ratdancefever3000]

Yeah, uh, why are you wasting your time? Iran and North Korea have nukes and your playing with religious metaphors for mere entertainment? Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm moving on. this is meaningless.

[wearefictional]

That makes Criss Angle look GOOD!

[laelirocks]

PEOPLE PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION! is not a trick! an artist made it so the people goin to the gallery can walk on the water thanks to a TITED BRIDGE!

nobody is talking about fkng fake criss angel

oh lord!

[TheXirik]

on the very first step his shoe squeaks.

[ibmxeastern13]

Dude!!!!!! you can see the small black things that u waalk on!!!!!!! fFAKE~

[RenAmayaGaarasgirl10]

@JW6639 his walking on water illusion is from plexi glass pillars going across the pool that dont have centers so people can swim through them

[RenAmayaGaarasgirl10]

nice I'd hate to fall in though

[INailAll]

That's SOOOOO fake you can hear it. I heard it, it's tables in the water!