Ghost Dress • Ink on hand made Amate paper with encaustic, mark making, hand written text, yarn and thread • 46″ x 70″ • 2023

Polaroid Stories

Instant Film Photography Series by EveNSteve

These mixed-media artworks are dreamlike narratives rendered through a compelling fusion of analog photography, hand-painted text, and poetic storytelling. Using Polaroid imagery transferred onto hand-coated brown paper or traditional Amate paper from Mexico, the artists root their work in tactile history. Every element—be it pigment pen, stitched line, or type—feels purposeful and intimate, as though uncovering forgotten mythologies etched into both landscape and psyche.

Each piece is a tile in a larger visual folklore. Lovely Dark Deep, inspired by Joyce Carol Oates, channels the haunted genius of Robert Frost and overlays Vermont’s rural bleakness with meditations on identity and legacy. Five of Them Are Lies, with its Cape Cod icehouse, juxtaposes domestic ritual and female agency—casting folklore not as static memory but a tool of survival. Ghost Dress animates inanimate things, granting objects emotional memory—a ghost story told from the perspective of place.

The works consistently conjure liminal spaces—half remembered, half invented—where myth meets history. Blow Through Her No More is a powerful allegory of human fragility and repair, its protagonist literally torn but dreaming of a red thread to mend herself. No One Holds Me and I Will Be Gone give voice to sea widows and wandering girls, invoking rhyme, spellwork, and elemental longing.

Critically, these works resist linear narrative. Instead, they emulate memory—fragmented, stitched, overwritten. The use of text as both image and narrative blurs poetry and visual art, resulting in a visual storytelling rooted in personal and cultural archaeology. Through layering of media, time, and voice, these works ask: What do places remember? What does the depicted figure become when seen through the prisms of myth, history, and words?

A Week In The Ice House

An intimate portrait of two artists working in a nineteenth-century converted icehouse in the waning light of December 2023. A meditation on light, sound, and color, “A Week in the Icehouse” invites the viewer to slow down and observe the unique artistic practice and partnership of EveNSteve while engaging with an energy of place. Taking place in and around the historic Corn Hill district in Truro, Cape Cod, this experimental film is an artwork about the practice and play of making art.

Selected Works from the Polaroid Stories Series

Instant film photographs exploring memory, narrative and the distinctive color palette of Polaroid photography.