How this was made

Colophon & credits

This website is itself part of the work: a record of a human and an AI building something together. This page names the people, the process and the tools, in keeping with the project's rule that the journey should always be visible.

Authorship

Photography and direction by Damen Hartley, under the artist name Damen Hartley. Research, archive and build work in collaboration with Claw, an AI partner.

Method

A cabinetmaker's process — inspiration, sketch, working drawing, make — applied to photography, research and collaboration. See the method room.

Technology

Hand-written HTML and CSS, a warm museum design system, and a timeline generated from a living working record. No tracking, no third-party clutter.

Sources

Research is evidence-led and cited. See the bibliography for named, dated sources behind the Sleaford work.

Status

A soft launch — work in progress

The site is now in its public soft-launch phase. It remains a working museum: pages, captions, routes and archive labels will keep improving, while the public/private boundary stays deliberate and visible.

Contact: a public contact route can be added once Damen Hartley is ready to receive responses from the site. For now, the priority is mission clarity, evidence and archive boundaries.

Evidence promise

Readable, checkable, protected.

This project treats evidence, privacy and accessibility as part of the work itself. Four commitments govern what is published, how it is labelled, and what stays protected.

Claims are sourced where possible. Public research points back to named, dated evidence. Uncertain or blocked sources are marked, not hidden.
Private material stays private by design. Raw rants, transcripts and sensitive working records move to the public archive only after deliberate review. The private area explains the boundary.
Meaning never depends on colour alone. Status labels, route markers and archive states use text, icons and position as well as colour. The site is designed to be readable in greyscale.
The collaboration is visible, not performative. The human–AI method is recorded honestly in the method, journey and archive. It is part of the research, not a marketing layer.