A digital artwork from 2004 by Matthew Salenger.

Inspiration from a sheet of stamps at the post office of 50 US states, where each stamp had unique buildings to the state. Most of the architecture is digitally removed from each state and replaced with various angles of the same suburban house in Ahwatukee Arizona.

The house in the photos is the ugliest I could find at the time, with every house in the large development exactly the same. Some people call this type of architecture “Taco Bell,” a reflection of how its outward appearance epitomizes a bastardization of Hispanic culture that was hugely popular at the time.

The sheet of stamps is revised to include the same ugly house- a vision of the future of architecture in the United States, where homogeneity becomes ubiquitous across the nation, and the value of meaningful aesthetics is left far behind. It is commentary on how economics drives our environment rather than quality or individuality.