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Home Suite Home: An Analysis Of Comfort In Americana And Motel Culture, Jodi Kolpakov
Home Suite Home: An Analysis Of Comfort In Americana And Motel Culture, Jodi Kolpakov
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This essay provides a critical look at the motel, investigating it as a souvenir, exploring its nostalgic phenomenon, and questioning its complexity of comfort. We begin by looking at the evolution of the motel and how its strange stereo- type came to be. I dissect the terms “shady” and “sketchy” as both a psychological and illustrated representation of the motel while closely reading how these terms appear in other forms of media, such as Bates Motel and Bad Times at the El Royale. Through exploring nostalgic Americana, I investigate how motels connect us from the past to the pres- …