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Charlotte Colbert’s Where Angels Live in the Meatpacking District

where angels live tree sculpture photo by gail worley
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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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