Overgrown Garden and Thatched Roof, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

Wild vegetation pushes into the foreground while Haussmann-era facades hold their ground behind it. Somewhere in between, a thatched rooftop structure sits on a white modernist building — the kind of detail Paris slips in without announcing it. The overcast autumn sky flattens the light evenly across all of it, giving the tangled stems and flowering plants the same weight as the stone and render behind them. Urban garden as mediator between two architectures that have no business sharing a frame.