These works by EveNSteve—created in Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet—evoke a haunting poetic mythology of Cape Cod’s outer lands. Photographed using a range of vintage film cameras, from the 1939 Minox spy camera to a 1970s 110-format and panoramic plastic cameras, the resulting images feel both archaeological and cinematic. Each print is hand-coated onto deconstructed paper bag material, a gesture that situates the work within both the everyday and the ephemeral, collapsing the grand and the mundane.


In each image, ghostlike figures drift through misty interiors and shadowed streets, evoking memory, displacement, and watchfulness. Overlaid with glyph-like symbols in black, white, and red—colors of traditional fairy tales—the drawings echo arcane alphabets, celestial navigation, and secret codes. The marks suggest maps, measurement, and narrative tension: a red box frames a subject as if under surveillance; arrows indicate unseen forces; degrees and formulas whisper occult significance. These marks don’t clarify but deepen the mystery.


EveNSteve’s layering of analog photography and symbolic drawing builds a grammar of the in-between: past and present, seen and unseen, story and cipher. These Cape Cod scenes feel like recovered dreams or records from another timeline—rooted in place, yet vibrating with myth.