For the Sottopassaggio (Underpass) series, I started by modifying digitally and then printing images of highway underpasses that I photographed on the 805/905 Freeway in San Diego after returning to the US from Italy in the late 1980’s. I then superimposed onto these images a series of transparent and colored mark-making layers, adding and inventing fragments deriving from late 1800’s iron arcades from the industrialized nations (USA, Italy, Germany, England and France.) The sense of this fusion was to create an analogy of the kind of reverie and daydream space that accompanies unbridled dreams of civilized grandiloquence. These overlooked or absorbed structures interest me for the archeology of desire they trace out. Each of these sets of superimposed images and marks references both specific personal experiences (seeing these then empty highways after years of living in Rome) as well as the line work in The Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione or 'Imaginary Prisons') print series of Giambattista Piranesi.