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In a city filled with towering buildings, it takes something truly unusual to make people stop and look up — and Multidisciplinary artist Charlotte Colbert’s Where Angels Live does exactly that.
Installed in the Meatpacking District (at the pedestrian plaza along 14th Street and 9th Avenue) as part of her two-site Chasing Rainbows project, the monumental sculpture takes the form of a bare, silver tree stretching skyward, its branches adorned with oversized dangling charms — hearts, hands, and surreal symbolic objects that glimmer in the daylight and shift with the movement of the breeze.
The piece serves as the companion to Colbert’s Dreamland Sirens in the Flatiron District — the striking giant eye perched atop a reflective column. While the eye invites viewers to reconsider how they see the city, Where Angels Live feels more like a place of memory and imagination — a contemporary shrine planted in the middle of Manhattan.
Both sculptures share Colbert’s signature dreamlike vocabulary and monumental scale, creating a visual conversation between two neighborhoods. Visitors are encouraged to experience both installations, moving between Flatiron and the Meatpacking District as part of a larger surreal journey across the city.
Temporary but impactful, Where Angels Live — along with Dreamland Sirens — will remain on view through May 27, 2026. Until then, this shimmering tree — equal parts mystical and modern — offers a moment of wonder suspended above the cobblestones, reminding passersby that even in New York, there’s still room for a little magic.
