Contrail Over a Paris Public Square in Autumn

4 October 2017 · Paris

A contrail cuts a clean diagonal across the backlit sky above a Paris public square, pulling the eye up through the silhouetted tree canopy. Below it, pedestrians cross the paving, yellow installations punctuate the mid-ground, and a brutalist concrete block anchors the left edge. The sky does the dramatic work; the square beneath it stays quiet and unhurried — one moves, the other holds still.