When I used log serious hours in the subway system, the architecture leaked into my unconscious and started rearranging itself. Some of the images of tunnels and tile stuck and I was able to document them. Many other nightmare subway drawings exist but their structures are faint. The below two examples are fully rendered snapshots. Years later I have been trying to induce more of these dreams by watching a series of subway related films. The real answer is to ride and walk through what I think is the dreamiest section of subway stations, 168 through 207/191 along the A and 1. The combo of arches and subterranean tile sweat should jog something.

This pair of images depict perilously tight transfers in my brain’s version of the MTA’s 14th st - Union Square stop. The platform in the first image was extremely narrow and slick giving way to the slippery chute in the following picture. While waiting for trains tracks in the distance brought trains on nosedives down into far off dark holes.

The name of TF station is probably some crumb left over from passing through TF Green Airport so often in my early 20s. This station exists far out on the L line headed toward Canarsie. The perceived distance probably fell somewhere along the Belt Parkway if the rain line continued toward Jamaica Bay. The first time passing southbound through Wilson Ave most likely prompted this scene. The view of the station from within Trinity Cemetery is also beautiful. The radiating green brick floor is a smushed recollection of the patterns tiling San Francisco’s Embarcadero center.