Leaning Towards The Sun

Heliocentric V

aleXander hirka
2 min readMar 25, 2019

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photo AleXander Hirka

The tree had its branches trimmed many times over the years, yet its trunk continued to bend more towards the street, towards the open sky and sun over the shorter building on the other side.

Eventually, the entire tree was leaning at a seemingly dangerous sixty degree angle.
Arborists from the Botanical Gardens met with a block committee and it was admitted that the tree…

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aleXander hirka

Writer, visual artist, philosopher, autodidact, curmudgeon. More than half of what i do is make believe. https://alexanderhirka.nyc