[image: the gaucho, 2010 | former home of martinez brothers' produce on western and foster in chicago- now resting, a motionless mu, like a polyamorous cubism for the gaze of those stopped in traffic]
produce markets in chicago are nodes in the circulatory, retail geography of chicago neighborhoods, substantiating the ghosts of the south water street market into the modern built environment- utilitarian bivouacs whose comestibles are legend to each neighborhood's distinctive ad-hoc and historic culinary identities, whose diversity so often populates the spaces in between our lives. it is with the photograph, and the legacy of sontag, that we can atomize the whitmanesque evangel of the interstitial into a spiritual narrative of our edible, urban landscapes.
[image: the gaucho, 2010 | what remains above the front door is from the you are beautiful movement. standing alone, now a modest culinary daguerreotype of bygone recipes]
the evolution of a building's form- a redefined substrate whose framework houses materials charged with the weightless legacy of perishable talismon, a surface for the inclusive semiotic of a brassai-like graffiti- is like the evolution of a recipe. building and recipe each have a genetic backbone whose expressed morphology can be adapted to accommodate the passing of time.
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