Formal Garden Canal in Paris, Autumn

5 October 2017 · Paris

A geometric water channel cuts through a Paris formal garden in early autumn. Brick-edged and still, the canal reflects the overcast sky while fallen leaves from linden trees carpet the grass at its edge. The clipped hedgerows hold their lines even as the season loosens everything around them — formal discipline and seasonal decay occupying the same frame. The architecture here is the garden itself: the geometry of trim and edge, repeated until it becomes the subject.