The Burden of Knowing
There are no chains in this room.
No guards. No gavel. No crowd to witness the verdict.
And yet, every figure here is already condemned.
The Burden of Knowing is a study of the inner court — the place where memory becomes evidence, where thought becomes testimony, and where the self stands trial before no one but itself.
These works do not depict punishment.
They depict awareness.
The moment when innocence fractures.
The moment when choice becomes history.
The moment when the mind begins to measure its own weight.
Within these images, judgment is not imposed — it is carried.
The scales do not belong to a system.
They belong to the soul.
This collection speaks to the quiet violence of conscience, the loneliness of moral clarity, and the inescapable truth that some sentences are never spoken aloud — only lived.
To know is not always to be free.
Sometimes, it is to be forever awake.
