The People Bear the Weight, the Brats Fight for Power

A crown is easy to desire, but difficult to bear. The baby-like figures scrambling for the crown and squeezing onto an overcrowded chair symbolize those who seek positions of power without the maturity to understand the responsibilities that come with them. Too many bodies compete for too little space, reflecting the ambition to occupy leadership positions, even when there is barely room for everyone.

Their struggle reveals a troubling contradiction: the desire to lead does not always come with the readiness to take responsibility. In the pursuit of power, the seat of leadership becomes something to fight over rather than a position of service and accountability.

Beneath the chair, a citizen serves as its foundation, symbolizing the people whose votes determine who gets to occupy positions of power in a democracy. Although the legitimacy of elected leaders comes from the people, those same people can be forgotten once power has been secured. The citizen's unhappy expression represents the disappointment and suffering of people who find themselves bearing the consequences of the very leadership they once chose. Rather than serving those who entrusted them with power, leaders may become a source of hardship for their own people.

Through this work, I question a political reality in which ambition takes precedence over responsibility, where the struggle to obtain power overshadows the duty to serve, and where the people who make leadership possible are ultimately left to bear its weight.