The Weight of All Things is a concentrated block of human and geological history. Composed of layered, torch-cut steel plates, a material born from ore pulled from the earth, the sculpture embodies the transformation of raw mineral into industrial product. Each slab bears the scars of its making: heat-warped edges, oxidation blooms, and surface striations that recall both tectonic layering and the conveyor lines of a mill. The stacked form suggests sedimentary rock strata as much as it does warehouse storage or shipping pallets, collapsing millennia of natural compression into a single manmade gesture. Here, the story of extraction, smelting, and fabrication meets the deep-time processes that created the iron within the steel, binding the labor of industry to the slow work of the earth. Heavy, silent, and immovable, the work becomes a monument to the shared endurance of both material and maker.