Prime Location (2025 - In Process)

Prime Location examines how the rapid growth of e-commerce is reshaping the California landscape. Vast fulfillment and distribution warehouses increasingly occupy the edges of communities, replacing farmland and open fields with the infrastructure of instant consumption. Their repetitive, copy-paste exteriors—banal yet monumental—constitute a new architectural vernacular, emblematic of the shift from brick-and-mortar storefronts to online commerce.

The project comprises two interconnected bodies of work. The first is a typological series of warehouse façades emphasizing anonymity and standardized design. The second pairs my contemporary photographs of newly constructed warehouses with earlier Google Street View images captured only months or years before, when the same sites remained pastures, orchards, or open space. This temporal juxtaposition reveals how swiftly living landscapes are transformed into industrial fortresses. The work draws on photography’s tradition of time-based comparative views and the legacy of the Bechers, Lewis Baltz, and the New Topographics.

Together, these works consider the paradox of convenience: transformed terrain, displaced memory, and a growing loneliness embedded in architecture optimized for algorithmic efficiency rather than human presence. These warehouse complexes reorder community life around the logistics of “next-day delivery,” reflecting a consumer culture increasingly lived in isolation.