Arterial thoroughfares and cloverleaf interchanges interspersed with random symmetries of gridded neighborhoods are the subjects of Fran Siegel’s Overland drawings. Inspired by Siegel’s post-9/11 move from New York to Los Angeles, the series grew out of her effort to make physical sense of the disorienting Los Angeles sprawl. The sheer size of this drawing guides the viewing experience, forcing a viewer to step back to see the whole work, and then to move in to see it close-up—much in the way we access maps in Google Maps, zooming in and out. Presence and absence, in the form of what is drawn or collaged and what is cut away, hold equal weight. Expressways that rip through the urban core are rendered as voids, calling attention to the reality that these are negative spaces of human activity, spaces that people move through but cannot inhabit. They are urban unspaces, functional but ultimately excised from our daily existence.