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move to carve · press and hold to focus
Exhibit I

The Heart

Human · whole, at intake
Donor unknown · condition — negotiable
Holding, or being held — undetermined

The first artifact is the one everyone arrives carrying. A heart, mid-gesture, caught between offering and withdrawing. We do not know whose it was. Every visitor who has stood before it has reported the same thing: that it looks exactly like their own.

It is assembled from dust because that is what a heart becomes when the sentences said to it go unexamined. The instruments in this museum exist to examine the sentences.

Anatomical point-sampling · grains
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The living specimen — watch it work

The sentence,
under glass.

A real message, decoded by the real engine, in front of you. The underlines are not decoration — select one and the mechanism opens.

Specimen · live decode · runs on your device

then bring your own: the full instrument is one door away

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press and hold to focus the exhibit
Exhibit I

The Quotation

Residue · of things said
Speaker unknown · date disputed
Meaning — undetermined

The most contested artifact in any relationship is the sentence itself: what was said, in which tone, and whether it happened at all. This mark is assembled from dust because that is how quotations survive — in particles, re-arranged by every retelling.

Hold it in focus and it sharpens. Let go, and it drifts — exactly like memory under pressure. The instruments in the next room exist so you don't have to hold it alone.

Anatomical point-sampling · grains
Exhibit II · recovered audio · rendered locally
SYNTHESIZED IN-BROWSER · NO RECORDING EXISTS · NOTHING UPLOADED
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Three chambers — one method

Choose your
instrument.

05

How to read anything here

It describes text, not people

No output concludes that anyone is an abuser. A flagged phrase is a pattern in words. Intent lives in a person; these instruments only ever see a sentence.

Mitigating evidence counts

Apologies, concessions, and hedging genuinely lower the reading. An instrument that can only escalate isn't an instrument — it's a mirror.

A clear result is not absolution

Harm travels in tone, history, and timing — places no text analyser reaches. If it felt wrong and nothing flags, your read still counts as data.

Every claim shows its source

Each pattern carries its lineage — Freyd, Stark, Sweet, Bancroft, Gottman — printed verbatim, so you can check the work.