The bridge as a change
When entering the cathedral you find yourself in front of an empty expanse of water with only one step at its edge. As you walk on, steps rise out of the lake, one by one, and fall back as you pass. You just feel like walking on water while alone in the silence of an old church (one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction). Even with two thirds of its height submerged in the man-made lake, this sacred place is not less imposing. When you reach the middle and stop to have a look, you notice that light, coming trough the long, narrow windows, reflects itself on the water’s surface, creating a perfect mirror. You are now thirty steps and twelve meters from the shore. When you’ll decide to turn around you’ll come back on the same way you came, your height activating the same mechanism that moves each step. The “bridge” is a site-specific installation commissioned for Dilston Grove and designed by Michel Cross. “It’s the first piece in a new series of works which take dream-like solutions or scenarios and insert them into the real world as an alternative view on how it might be.” The language used reject stability in favor of movement while trying to keep flexible and simple but complex in the reaction it creates.
Just like he did in his past works, Cross wants to awake feelings or physical sensations rather than designing just nice looking or functional objects. “All these works seek to achieve a kind of beauty in the way they are used, striving to be engaging and intriguing in the way they are experienced and not only in how they look.”
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