What Has Been Will Be Again

digital / PNG, 790×646 / meme / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-401 — What Has Been Will Be Again
FI-EPH-401 / What Has Been Will Be Again / 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 two-photo meme captioned "what has been will be again and what has been done will be done again," a line from Ecclesiastes. On the left is a nearly empty carpeted room holding only a PC with two monitors on the floor, a controller, and a few boxes; on the right, a bare whitewashed monastic cell with a narrow bed, a wooden table, a hanging habit, and a crucifix. The comparison is the meme's, 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 / PNG, 790×646 / meme / 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-401-gamer-room-monk-cell.png Open local asset