The Marsh Supermarket on 116th Street in Carmel opened in 1997 as one of the company’s most ornate stores. It closed in 2017 when the chain declared bankruptcy. The Carmel Clay Public Library used the vacant building for two years.

“Abandoned Marsh” was my project to stylistically document the Marsh Supermarkets closed by Sun Capital Partners, an investment firm that owned the home-grown company for the final decade of its eighty-six year history. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.

The company’s stores built from around 1980 to 2004 or so were easily identifiable because of their angular greenhouses and dark brick massing. Instead of taking pictures of the buildings, I decided to create 18×24 vector files in Adobe Illustrator, focusing on the complexity of their angles and how shadows and highlights interacted with them. This was my seventy-second entry into the series and the first brand new one I’ve shared here.