The 1680 House
Our new series The Nothing There Is explores imperfection, ambiguity, and the paradoxical meaningfulness of nothingness. The title is inspired by Professor Robert Kaplan’s book The Nothing That Is, which delves into the paradoxical nature of zero—a symbol for the non-existent. This project examines how expression is both constructed and deconstructed, it reflects the shared human experience of seeking meaning. Our intention is to invite the viewer to consider the human search for ultimate meaning as both bewitching, spiritual, compelling and, like zero, a lovely, inexhaustible paradox.
Our work involves printing evocative imagery on hand-coated brown paper bags, transforming the mundane into the precious. Images are then hand-inscribed with an eclectic array of symbols. Akin to hieroglyphics before the Rosetta Stone, this creates a visual language that is potent yet intentionally obscure, reflecting a paradoxical multiplicity of significance.
The images we have selected for our submission all came from our recent stay in a historic home from the 1680s. All these artworks were made using exclusively natural light and using a 1939 Minox “spy camera” and Italian motion picture film.
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Stephen SchaubDirectorA Wonderfull Plague, The Home of My Choice, Walking Makes You Think Differently, Frost, Rokeby, Each One A Soul,
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Eve SchaubDirectorA Wonderfull Plague, The Home of My Choice, Walking Makes You Think Differently, Frost, Rokeby, Each One A Soul,
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EveNSteveArtistsProducerA Wonderfull Plague, The Home of My Choice, Walking Makes You Think Differently, Frost, Rokeby, Each One A Soul,
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Stephen SchaubMusic
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:2 minutes 59 seconds
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Completion Date:April 2, 2025
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Production Budget:4,500 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Minox Spy Camera, FILM, Scans
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
EveNSteve is the creative team of artist Stephen Schaub author Eve O. Schaub. Their artworks combine imagery with handwritten text to create evocative landscapes that tell stories and speak to history.
Eve O. Schaub is an internationally published author and humorist. The author of Year of No Sugar (2014) and Year of No Clutter (2017); her third family memoir is Year of No Garbage (2023). She has been featured in The New Yorker, on the Weather Channel, NPR, the Dr. Oz Show, and USA Today. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew and Spanish, and her writing has additionally appeared in The Washington Post, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Art New England and Vermont Life. She holds a BA and BFA from Cornell University, and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Stephen Schaub is an artist and a Marine Corps Veteran who served in Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm and a recipient of the Navy Achievement Medal. After receiving his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, he founded FigitalRevolution.com, a groundbreaking website and then YouTube channel that advocates for the use of film as well as the merging of digital and traditional photographic techniques. He has curated shows focusing on contemporary photographic practice, published two collections of his work (Through A Glass Darkly, 1999, and A Sense of Place, 2004) and is well respected in the industry as a leader in the field of hybrid photographic film technologies and innovative printing techniques. His work has been exhibited in Asia and Europe as well as throughout the United States. Schaub's artworks have been described as "art dreaming about itself."
In 2019 Eve and Stephen teamed up to create artworks under the name EveNSteve. Together they make artworks, short films, and put crazy stuff in Vermont hayfields.
