A monumental memento mori to the decline and decay of a family-owned grocery store in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, from which the work takes its name. When Patterson first encountered the store in 2003 it was still open for business but seemingly stuck in time, its shelves scattered with long-expired products, an unintentional time capsule. Over the next twenty years he returned to it repeatedly. Through an eclectic mix of on-site and studio pictures, monotypes, trompe l'oeil collages and cryptic handwritten notes, the work becomes a layered experience closer to Duchamp's readymades or Dieter Roth's Flat Waste, where everyday objects are transformed. The object itself is aged and worn, wrapped in a brown paper sleeve resembling a grocery sack, with mould and foxing marks as if caused by heavy southern humidity.