The Marsh Supermarket in Peru opened in 1980 as a Mace Supermarket. Marsh purchased the store in 1999 and operated it as a LoBill Foods and several other brands before it closed in 2017. The store briefly reopened as Shoppers Value Foods before closing again in 2019. Today, it’s home to state offices.
“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.
