The composition of the photograph, which is divided into three horizontal registers, alludes to the tradition of landscape painting: the sky in the top section; a void in the middle, framed by electricity or telephone cables, and a halo of light at its center, suspended over what appears to be the city center on the horizon; and on the bottom concrete structures of an urban industrial landscape. The three parts of the photograph are intertwined in a crisscross of sorts, as the seated man and the direction of his gaze link the illuminated part (which engulfs the image with a mystical air) and the earthly part. The high street-light opposite him similarly turns the gaze on the man, as a mirror image in diagonal symmetry: the bent back versus the curved contour of the lamppost, the stuck sword versus the shape of the signs that stick out from the post. The third part of the photograph portrays Vancouver’s cityscape through the industrial prism of trains and factories, which emphasize the economic and production apparatuses at work in it. This part features a street sign with the name Kootenay (the region, named after a First Nations people, that also gave its name to a national park in British Columbia). The name attests to both the ethnic fabric of the region today and the fact that such parks provide big cities with fenced capsules of “nature”; excluded from their bounds, this nature defines them by negation.