This artwork by EveNSteve, created using a 1970 Canon 110 film camera, exemplifies the duo's ability to blend the deeply analog with the conceptually layered. The use of 110 film—a nostalgic format often dismissed as amateurish—becomes a radical choice here, foregrounding imperfection and intimacy. The image embraces softness, grain, and the quirks of expired film. The result is a visual language closer to memory than record—fleeting, hazy, emotionally resonant.

The image is printed on deconstructed brown paper bag material, a signature surface in EveNSteve’s practice, which transforms the ephemeral into the archival. This substrate bears the weight of history and daily life; it is both throwaway and timeless. Over the photograph, a series of hand-drawn symbols in red, black, and white—colors traditionally associated with myth and fairy tale—create a semiotic veil. These markings resist direct interpretation, evoking ancient script or coded ritual. They do not caption the image but complicate it, insisting on ambiguity.

Critically, this piece interrogates what counts as “significant” in photography. The vintage camera, the grocery bag, the unreadable script—all challenge hierarchies of value in art. EveNSteve offer an image that is not just seen but read, felt, and intuited—a poetic object where material, myth, and memory converge.