​Late Checkout is Cayla's newest body of work that transforms the overlooked ephemera of travel into large-scale painted icons of memory, luxury, and human vulnerability. Centered around oversized renditions of hotel stationery from some of the world’s most iconic hospitality brands, each piece features hand-scrawled, witty notes that echo the private, fleeting thoughts people leave behind in anonymous rooms.

Birk. uses this familiar yet intimate medium to explore our strange social loyalty to storied hotels — spaces that promise both consistency and escape. These brands become markers of identity, status, and sentimentality, while the notepads they provide capture raw, often unfiltered moments: a confession, a breakup, a doodled business plan, or a cheeky thought before checkout.

Late Checkout invites viewers to consider what we share when we think no one is looking, and how even the most transient objects, like a branded notepad on a bedside table, can hold lasting emotional weight. It’s a tribute to the humor, heartbreak, and humanity scribbled in passing, and a meditation on where luxury and loneliness intersect.