In Ekaterina Margolis's autobiographical book “Footprints on the Water,” Venice goes beyond its borders: the cracks on its walls become the intertwining of human destinies; its bridges connect earth and sky, that light and this one; circling its streets, you can wander into a church where two liturgies are served simultaneously - Catholic and Orthodox; the lagoon imperceptibly turns into a snow-covered field; balloons in the hands of children at the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute turn into inflated hedgehog gloves on the bed of the boy Leva, dying of cancer in a Moscow hospital. The narrative is driven by love - passion and compassion, fidelity and faith, the happiness of presence and the memory of loss, repentance and forgiveness, the revelation of beauty and the beauty of Revelation. The book presents paintings, graphics, photographs, typographic compositions and object installations by the author