This project investigates how material transformation can function as a system for producing identity rather than representation. Using oranges, the work asks how an object becomes legible when it is no longer understood as a generic unit within a system, but as a singular entity with a specific history, condition, and behaviour. The project treats material not as a neutral substrate, but as an active medium through which difference, identity, and information are articulated.

The project constructs an alternative system of individuation through material practice. Nine sheets are produced from the peels of nine oranges, each treated as a singular entity. While the same process is applied to all—washing, softening, blending, binding, casting, drying, and pressing—the resulting sheets are not identical. Differences in peel thickness, moisture content, fibre density, and sugar concentration generate variations in translucency, flexibility, and structural strength. These variations are not corrected or standardised; they are preserved as material evidence of difference.