Twin Domes Above the Treetops, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

Two dark cupolas press up through a canopy of deep-red and green foliage under a low, overcast Paris sky. The building below — pale Haussmann stone, wrought-iron balconies — holds its ground between the trees, but the domes claim the frame. Dense layering does the compositional work here: foliage in front, architecture behind, flat grey sky above, each plane reading cleanly against the next.