Suburb Transformation is a photographic summary of the maturation of tract-home communities in the Phoenix-Metro area. Homes like these dominate the built environment and have likewise placed a vital role in reducing Phoenix’s cultural and physical identity to that of ‘X’ American city. With repetition and monotony just beginning to break down after several decades of maturation, Phoenix’s future identity will be largely determined by the suburbia that surrounds it.

The video is comprised of over 400 digital photographs of single-family homes built in the greater Phoenix area between 1920 and 2006. All photos were taken from the street and then sequenced from newest to oldest. The finished piece was featured as a video installation in the 2008 group art exhibition Post Petroleum: Envisioning the Future of Suburban Space in the Age of Peak Oil at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno.