Bamboo Grove Against a Stone Wall, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

A dense bamboo grove rises above a weathered stone garden wall in Paris, its slender culms disappearing into a canopy of deep green foliage under a flat autumn sky. The grove reads as a wall itself — layered and impenetrable from the outside, open and bare at the base where the canes stand in bare earth. Autumn colour catches the edges of the surrounding trees, marking the season without interrupting the bamboo's insistence on staying green.