Man with Yellow Flowers

digital / PNG, 1206×1196 / film still / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-337 — Man with Yellow Flowers
FI-EPH-337 / Man with Yellow Flowers / 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: an uncaptioned, film-style still of a soot-smudged man with cropped hair, in a dark coat with a shearling collar, gazing downward at a small sprig of yellow wildflowers held in his hand against a pale, overcast sky. The muted grading and framing suggest a frame taken from a feature film, and it circulates as a reaction image of quiet melancholy. The source work, the person pictured, and the crop's history are unverified. 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 / PNG, 1206×1196 / film still / 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-337-man-with-yellow-flowers.png Open local asset