Object Record / FI-EPH-288
Monkey Puppet and the Two Tablets
digital / PNG, 1125×2436 / screenshot / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a phone screenshot of an Instagram story reposting a wordless two-row meme. Each row pairs the sideways-glancing monkey puppet reaction image with a line drawing of two upright slabs. In the top row, a slab with two clean slits sits beside one smeared with many dark diagonal streaks; in the bottom row, the second slab carries only two blurred streaks. It reads as a diagram of lines of powder before and after, with the puppet's nervous side-eye as the punchline; the meaning is left implied by the image. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.
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 / PNG, 1125×2436 / screenshot / 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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