Object Record / FI-EPH-011
Vertebral Column
digital / JPEG, 1320×2868 / phone screen capture of a social feed / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-04 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found-image meme supplied for The Shadow Zone, captured as a full phone screenshot rather than as an isolated frame: an anatomical plate of the human vertebral column — skull, cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments, sacrum and coccyx labelled — set beside a standing figure, with a burned-in two-line caption warning the viewer not to turn around. The caption's second line is a racial slur; it is recorded here by description rather than transcribed, and remains legible in the image itself. The operator reviewed the content and directed accession uncropped. The capture also retains the host application's interface chrome, including the display names and profile thumbnails of several unrelated third-party accounts; those accounts are incidental to the screenshot, have granted no clearance, and are not identified in this record. Authorship, source date, upstream context, and alteration history of the meme itself remain unverified.
Restoration relevance
Why it remains connected
accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.
Uncertainty notes
What remains unresolved
digital / JPEG, 1320×2868 / phone screen capture of a social feed / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.
Relationships
Keep the object connected.
Related objects
Parent system
The Shadow Zone
A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.
Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open
Field logs / dossiers
Archive routes
Source Assets / 1 reference
Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.
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assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-011-vertebral-column.jpegOpen local asset