Object Record / FI-EPH-032
Starbucks Mohawk
digital / JPEG, 1133×1371 / captioned candid photograph / 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 meme supplied for The Shadow Zone: a candid interior photograph of a man in a tall bleached mohawk, wraparound sunglasses and a heavily studded leather jacket, seated at a small café table working at a laptop trailing green-lit cables, with a spiked bag on the chair beside him. A burned-in caption above the frame names the scene as a self-portrait of the poster in a coffee chain on a stated dose of a prescription stimulant — self-deprecating humour rather than instruction, and this record neither endorses nor advises any such use. The pictured man is not identified, appears to have been photographed without obvious participation, and has granted no clearance. Photographer, location, date, and whether the caption's claim relates to him at all 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, 1133×1371 / captioned candid photograph / 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-032-starbucks-mohawk.jpegOpen local asset