Ramón Haití Eduardo
Sculptor, born in 1932, member of Grupo Antillano. A documented figure of Cuban art with his own trajectory and his own place in history.
[ note ] Case note · 2026-09-15
The light of Bergen: a website that dawns with its city.
Ramón Eduardo Haití Filiu is a Cuban painter based in Bergen, Norway, with two decades of exhibitions and press in the Nordic scene. His work lived in galleries and newspaper clippings; on the internet, his name was told by a mix of old and confusing sources. This note tells how ramonhaitifiliu.com was built: 90 pages in three languages, a background that follows the real height of the sun over Bergen, and the finest entity problem we've solved to date: two real artists with the same name.
[01] The starting point
A domain occupied by a half-built site.
The artist's domain existed, but it served a half-finished WordPress install, with filler text and sample data that were never replaced. For a search engine or an AI, that's worse than having no website: it's a source that misinforms with the authority of the official domain. It was replaced entirely with a custom-code site: a Python generator that turns data files (works, exhibitions, press) into 90 static pages, in English, Norwegian, and Spanish, with the titles of the works always in their original language. No WordPress, no plugins, nothing for the artist to administer: the same architecture as Ala del Mar, because the problem was its sibling.
[02] The light
The background isn't a color: it's the time it is in Bergen.
The central design decision came from a simple question: how do you frame painting without competing with it? The answer was to strip the website of every color of its own and give it, instead, the light. The site's background is computed from the real height of the sun over Bergen at the moment of the visit: a continuous gradient (interpolated in the OKLab color space, which follows how eyes perceive rather than how numbers mix) that runs from the near-black blue of night, through the violets and peaches of dawn, to the clear yellow of the brightest hour. In deep night, with the sun far below the horizon, a barely perceptible aurora breathes around the work. The text ink chooses itself by contrast against each background. The result: whoever visits the site from anywhere in the world sees it under the light there is right now in the painter's city, and the work is always the only color on the page.
[03] The name trap
Two real artists, one same name.
This case carries the most delicate entity problem we've worked on: the painter's father is also an artist of Cuban culture, and they share a name. Search engines and AIs had spent years mixing them up, attributing one man's facts to the other. The solution wasn't to hide the kinship but to declare it precisely, in the copy and in the structured data, so humans and machines can tell them apart once and for all:
Ramón Eduardo Haití Filiu
Painter, born in Havana in 1971, based in Bergen since 2009. His website declares the kinship and the difference, in three languages and in the schema, so no machine merges them again.
[ + ] The press, verified
The site's press room documents 32 appearances in Norwegian press between 2006 and 2023, each verified against the catalog of the National Library of Norway before publishing, with original summaries and no reproduction of third-party text or photos. It's the raw material of machine-readable reputation: third-party, checkable sources telling the same story as the site.
[04] The numbers
Measured on launch day, verifiable by anyone.
90 indexable pages in three languages with hreflang. Desktop Lighthouse: 100 performance, 100 accessibility, 100 best practices, 100 SEO; on mobile, 98 performance with the rest at 100 and zero layout shift. The homepage weighs 12 KB of HTML. The robots.txt welcomes the AI assistants' crawlers by name, there's an llms.txt with the artist's citable facts, and the site was born verified on Google Search Console and Bing, with IndexNow announcing every change. All of it can be checked today with the public tools.
[ related ] To follow the thread
The live site: ramonhaitifiliu.com. Its sibling case: Ala del Mar, the website of writer Antonio López Sánchez, whose book covers Haití Filiu has illustrated: two houses that link to each other because their works were already linked. And the doctrine behind the press room: Fewer clicks, better clicks.
[ → ] And your work?
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