Rise and Fall explores civilizations as layered, evolving systems rather than linear histories. Through a sequence of planetary forms, the series traces emergence, expansion, decline, and integration, revealing how structures that appear stable are in fact constructed, interdependent, and inherently fragile. Some works expose the underlying order — modular, repeated, and subject to entropy — where collapse emerges from within. The use of bronze, brass, and steel embeds different temporal and cultural associations into the material itself, while small human figures anchor these vast systems in lived experience. Together, the works suggest that past, present, and future do not follow one another, but coexist — accumulating as stratified layers within the worlds we continue to build.