Weight of It All is a collaborative photographic project born from the quiet terror of watching a teenage son disappear into an eating disorder and a mother’s desperate instinct to reach him. Created over several years, the work traces a family’s emotional landscape as they navigate body dysmorphia, fear, and the fragile hope of recovery. The project began unintentionally, with the mother staging still-life images of the foods her son once loved but no longer allowed himself to eat—simple, aching photographs that became a wordless language when conversation collapsed. Two years later, she invited him to join her, and together they shaped a visual dialogue that carried them through isolation, confusion, tenderness, and the slow work of return. More than an art project, their collaboration became a bridge built from vulnerability and a shared longing to understand each other beyond fear. Weight of It All offers an intimate view into that journey: the tension between nourishment and refusal, the rituals of control, the quiet grief of watching a child fade, and the stubborn love that endured. It reflects the truth they discovered together—that love is not measured by the meals one could not give, but by the presence that never withdrew—and stands as a testament to resilience, reconnection, and the power of art to hold what words cannot.