Socrates Sculpture Park, Sunset, Astoria, NY.
Winter's Bare Branches - Holding On - By Vivienne Gucwa

Stuck somewhere between the heart and lips pushed down by the echoes of memory echoes loss: the mirror reflection of connection.

We spend our lives shedding pieces of ourselves: molted hopes and dreams that slough off into the thoughts of everyone we meet like stardust falling to the Earth from distant stars.

These are the pieces we hold on to: the pieces that are part of us that can never be put back into the same place again after they dissolve into nothing.

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On a bleak winter day, clusters of branches reach out towards each other against the backdrop of a bone-grey sky.

Taken at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City - Queens, New York City.

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Socrates Sculpture Park, an internationally renowned outdoor museum and artist residency program.  Enlightened citizens reclaimed an abandoned riverside landfill for the public benefit.
Socrates Sculpture Park in Ravenswood displaying a striking modern piece of sculpture.
Vernon and Broadway - future location of Socrates Park
Socrates Sculpture Park (ca 1990)
Socrates Sculpture Park, Sunset, Astoria, NY.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Sunset, Astoria, NY.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Sunset, Astoria, NY.
See photo in original gallery.