Object Record / FI-EPH-012
Piss Man
digital / JPEG, 890×898 / phone screen capture of a message thread / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-05 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found-image cutout supplied for The Shadow Zone, captured as a phone screenshot of the operator's own message thread rather than as an isolated frame: a close crop of an unidentified man against a black field, teeth bared, wearing small round dark-lensed spectacles. Below it sit two of the operator's outgoing messages, which name the figure and direct it here — "We need making piss man" / "For empherma" — and are preserved as the accession's own provenance. The name "Piss Man" is the operator's; it carries no known upstream attribution. Admitted uncropped to match the FI-EPH-011 precedent. Only the operator's side of the thread is visible; no correspondent is shown or identified. Subject, authorship, source frame, date, and alteration history 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, 890×898 / phone screen capture of a message thread / 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-012-piss-man.jpegOpen local asset