Cheryl Goldsleger has made architecture the subject of her work for more than four decades. Her graphite drawing "Rise" belongs to a series of works in which Goldsleger pays homage to underappreciated women architects. It is loosely inspired by a 1926 design for the Honolulu YWCA Recreation Center by the American architect Julia Morgan (1872 – 1957). Goldsleger conceived her composition as a system of walls and floors, rooms and halls—a sort of blueprint that she first articulated in pencil, then obscured through smudged and flaking pools of powdered graphite. The resulting image, evoking physical decay and the traces of fading memory, makes palpable the passage of time and the inevitable breakdown of all structures.