Paris Park Entrance at Bois de Boulogne

4 October 2017 · Paris

A security kiosk marks the edge of Bois de Boulogne, Paris — green barriers, bollards, and a no-parking sign doing the quiet work of keeping a city park orderly at its threshold. The pale autumn canopy stretches behind the gate, punctuated by a single slender mast rising into a wide, cloud-streaked sky. The entrance is bureaucratic and functional; the park beyond it is neither.