Motel Charts and institutional framing set in

and institutional framing set in clean typography that contextualizes the work without competing with it

The scene is still yet alive

the fine typographic detail and precise linework of the original illustration are rendered with full clarity and sharpness

and the subtle shifts of colour across the body

Motel Charts and institutional framing set inNico Tracey's "Motel" assembles fragments of mid century Americana into a quietly unsettling collage: roadside signage, flat architectural planes, and found imagery locked into a composition that is both familiar and displaced. The deliberate flatness of the picture plane and the tension between mundane subject matter and strange juxtaposition locate the work firmly in contemporary surrealist collage playful on the surface, subtly uncanny underneath.