Other supermarkets had been remodeled into this format, but the Marsh supermarket on Burlington Drive in Muncie opened in 1977 as the company’s first “Combo” outlet to feature a built-in drug store. It closed forty years later. The supermarket was demolished after it closed to make way for a housing project. Near the end, the drug wing was converted to a Family Dollar.

“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.