Counterpoint

A single-image project exploring the encounter between the human body and a historically designed space. Set in the Jardin des Tuileries, the photograph introduces a quiet deviation within an environment defined by symmetry, order, and permanence.

Counterpoint is a single-image photographic project captured in the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, at the site of the memorial to André Le Nôtre, architect of the French classical garden.

The photograph juxtaposes a momentary human gesture with a space historically designed for symmetry, control, and visual authority. While the architecture asserts order through axis, proportion, and permanence, the human body enters the frame briefly, horizontally and without ceremony.

Rather than opposing the structure, the body coexists with it, introducing a quiet deviation within a system built for stability. The image explores how contemporary presence inhabits inherited spatial ideologies, revealing tension not through conflict, but through stillness.