Photographs pictured here were taken between 2001 – 2005 at Frankie Machine Garden in Chicago’s Ukranian Village. While gardening there, I documented the life cycles of its people and plants. Season to season, frame to frame, the light, the landscape, and the weather changed, as did its people. This series is dedicated to Javier Mentado (1948 – 2004), long-time gardener at Frankie Machine.