About
About This Project
Section titled “About This Project”Not all silence is passive.
Some is constructed.
This is not a campaign.
Nor a protest.
It is a response to a silence that has become structural.
It began as a simple request:
What do the records say about the lives inside?
They said: There are no records.
Every system has a memory — or a deliberate absence of it.
I work in the gap between what is claimed and what is traceable.
This project lives in that gap — not to close it, but to expose it.
Its focus is narrow and deliberate:
farmed animals confined in industrial systems, whose suffering is designed to disappear.
Not by accident, but by structure.
Pigs. Hens. Those rendered into numbers, categories, protocols, or nothing at all.
Not because they don’t matter —
But because we built a world where they can’t.
Why FOI?
Section titled “Why FOI?”Transparency is not the goal.
It is the tool used to reveal the absence of accountability.
I use FOI laws because they are one of the few levers that remain.
Not to fight.
But to register.
To document what is denied, refused, forgotten — or never considered worth recording.
When the state cannot provide records,
we do not receive “no data.”
We receive an admission that absence is policy.
This is not bureaucratic process.
It is an ethical surface —
Where silence becomes something visible.
The Repeating Pattern
Section titled “The Repeating Pattern”A loop of refusal becomes a pattern.
A pattern becomes a system.
This project is a cycle.
Each round is the same, and yet not:
- Request — what should already exist
- Wait — for what cannot be admitted
- Receive — nothing, or something shaped to be nothing
- Record — refusal, absence, trace
And again.
Each repetition is a quiet defiance.
Not loud enough to break the silence —
But enough to mark that we did not join it.
What This Is Not
Section titled “What This Is Not”This is not outreach.
It is exposure.
This is not a call for empathy.
Not an effort to persuade.
I do not ask people to care.
What I ask is this:
If institutions claim to act for animals —
Then where is the trace of those actions?
Where are the records?
If there is no memory, there is no governance.
If there is no trace, there was no witness.
This archive exists so that their unrecorded lives do not vanish completely.
Some things cannot be saved.
But they can be remembered —
And refusal can be named.