The “back” in Father’s Burden is not lineage, but load-bearing. The work draws from a tool of the agrarian era—two naturally grown wooden branches joined to form a carrying system for heavy loads. In that time, the human body remained directly coupled with nature: flesh bore weight, and wood bore flesh. This is a heavy work—not for the mass it carries, but for the generational experience it embodies: how the body collaborated with the wild, and how life sustained itself through the weight it shouldered.