Here, in his first documentary photograph, Wall chooses a location he knows well, on the fringes of his home city of Vancouver. The scale of the work evokes traditional landscape painting. The familiar device of the sweeping pathway leading to the horizon enhances this effect, while the tiny figure on the path underlines the openness of the landscape. However, the elements that make up the scene - a scattering of suburban housing, a few farmyard animals and an expanse of bare, scrubby track - are a far cry from idealised visions of pastoral landscape. Wall often selects these transitional environments, where urban life meets nature. 'I make landscapes, or cityscapes as the case may be, to study the process of settlement as well as to work out for myself what the kind of picture (or photograph) we call "landscape" is' he has explained.