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Charlotte Colbert’s Where Angels Live in the Meatpacking District

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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.
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Charlotte Colbert’s Dreamland Sirens in the Flatiron District

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There’s something undeniably arresting about encountering a giant, disembodied eye in the middle of the city —e specially one that seems to be watching from all directions at once. Installed near the iconic Flatiron Building in the Flatiron District, Charlotte Colbert’s Dreamland Sirens (2025) transforms a familiar urban crossroads into something far more surreal.
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