The Marsh Supermarket in Naperville, Illinois opened as one of the company’s first “Lifestyle” stores in 2005. It closed the following year after the company was purchased by Sun Capital Partners. Today, the building is home to Angelo Caputo’s Fresh Markets.
“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. Marsh was a regional grocery store chain that was founded in Muncie and eventually grew to encompass 157 supermarkets, 154 convenience stores, three florists, two catering services, and a restaurant. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.
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.
