“Entschuldigung, ich spreche nicht so viel Deusch” is one of the only sentences I know in German. I used it extensively at passport control checkpoints. The work was exhibited at the Goethe Institute in Rotterdam. The work shows a metal cast from my Austrian passport. The defunctionalized object aims at initiating a discussion on how the state and society deal with the notion of identity. Its monumentalization through the material transformation aims at revealing the opposite: interpretations of identity as something that is always in the process of becoming and never static, something that is intrinsically in flux. Materiality plays an important role in this work. On one hand, the durability of metal represents the social illusion that identity is well-defined and fixed. On the other hand, and metaphorically speaking, the casting process stands for the possibility of future identity transformations. The same material can be melted and recast into various forms over one lifetime.