Paris Gallery Window Looking Toward Sacré-Cœur

5 October 2017 · Paris

A floor-to-ceiling gallery window frames the Paris roofscape with Sacré-Cœur sitting faintly on the horizon. The interior — white walls, warm parquet, a safety-red fire extinguisher mounted to the glass — does as much compositional work as the view itself. Overcast light flattens the rooftops into something close to abstraction, the basilica readable only just. Architecture as threshold: the room is the frame, the city is the subject.