Motel Charts and deliberate

and deliberate

and the subtle shifts of colour across the body

Kazumasa used delicate hand-tinting to bring a painterly quality to photographic prints of blossoms and landscapes — a rare bridge between documentary photography and decorative art

The scene is still yet alive

Objects lean and tilt against each other

Motel Charts and deliberateNico 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.