Gallery: A Massive Indoor Flood, Created for a Piano Concert

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    From now until January 4, New York City's Park Avenue Armory's 55,000 square feet has a standing pool of water.
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    The manmade flood is part of a new installation-meets-performance piece, *Tears Become…Streams Become…*.
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    It required some serious engineering: the Armory worked with Arup to turn the floor into a massive pond, and then build a new set of floorboards on top.
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    Come performance time, a series of nine pumps will add water that will rise .75 inches above the surface, pooling around the lone piano player.
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    The illusion is startling: even with less than one inch of standing water, the lighting and reflectivity make the pool look 100 feet deep.
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