A hinged shell ledger with translucent molt membranes, pearl seals, tide glyphs, and blue-green mineral staining.
Lineage, molting cycles, and civic memory become one intimate bureaucratic object in a hinged shell-book archive.

Molting Ledger of the Seven Currents

Exuviae, seals, and tide notation make biology part of state recordkeeping without reducing it to novelty.