A tree rises from the weight it carries. Its crown is not made of leaves, but of stone like forms, dense and improbable, held aloft by a body built from hundreds of Redy Rahadian’s human figures. What appears heavy becomes suspended. What should fall is somehow sustained. The tree stands in a state between burden and grace.

Thefigures gather into trunks and branches, each one almost disappearing into thelarger form. Together they become the structure that makes growth possible. Thework speaks of how life is often built this way, through countless unseen actsof support, endurance, and presence. No single figure holds the tree alone, yetwithout each one, the whole would change.

Inthis sculpture growth not as something light or effortless, but as somethingcarried. The stones above suggest memory, responsibility, desire, andeverything we accumulate as we move forward. Yet the tree continues to rise.Its strength comes not from escaping weight, but from learning how to hold it.