Burden and Crown is a powerful meditation on legacy, struggle, and silent resilience. Rendered in layered ink with surgical precision, the skeletal subject bears both the weight of extinction and the echo of royalty. A cracked skull, poised yet fractured, invites reflection: What do we inherit, and what does it cost to carry it? This piece balances stark fragility with an almost mythic strength each etched line a whisper of history, each shadow a burden once borne. It’s part of Yerins Abraham’s What Bones Remember collection, a series that reimagines bones not as symbols of death, but as vessels of memory, truth, and transformation. More than an artwork, Burden and Crown is a relic one that speaks to the hidden costs of power and the quiet endurance of those who came before.