What Should I Do?

digital / JPEG, 680×381 / screenshot / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-241 — What Should I Do?
FI-EPH-241 / What Should I Do? / source photograph 01

Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.

Custody record

Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.

What is known

Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a subtitled still from the NHK World documentary "10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki." From over the white-haired subject's shoulder, the camera looks down at a desk spread with blank and partly drawn storyboard sheets, an ashtray, pens, and a tray, while a colleague works at a desk in the background. The burned-in subtitle reads "What should I do?" The subtitle is the broadcaster's translation, reproduced as found. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.

Why it remains connected

accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.

What remains unresolved

digital / JPEG, 680×381 / screenshot / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.

Keep the object connected.

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

Source Assets / 1 reference

Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.

  1. assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-241-miyazaki-what-should-i-do.jpeg Open local asset