At the centre of the book is a performative structure that mirrors the seasonal cycles of the ground it describes. Hobler's use of photographic sequences, with recurring vantage points and motifs, recreates the feeling of covering the same terrain day after day and season after season. The rhythm suggests not only time passing but a kind of musicality: the pictures rise and fall, drift off and come back, as if keeping to the slow, solemn tempo of a composition.