In edifices or monuments lie the living heritage, for Man and animals, the vestigial remnants of memories. Structures that represent the lived spaces with the roof offering protection and cover from elements of the weather. Portent to a heritage of an architecture intrinsically Javanese, of power and heritage and a deterioration of use over time and changed circumstances. The sloping roof with its horns and the regiment of eaves marks an era where the nobility and the bourgeois held sway. This work had been shown at the Crossing exhibition (Galeri Petronas, 2016) and the Poised For Degradation exhibition (RKFA, Singapore, 2014). Yogyakarta-based Nadiah Bamadhaj, who became a fulltime artist in 2000, won the Juror's Choice award in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 2001. She was resident artist at Rimbun Dahan in 2000-2001. She was educated at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, graduating with a BFA majoring in Sculpture and Sociology in 1992. In 2002-2003, she was awarded the Nippon Foundation's Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship, with a follow-up Public Intellectual grant in 2004. She made her mark in her first solo, 1965 Rebuilding Its Monuments, at Galeri Petronas in 2001, and continued showing in Malaysia, Indonesia and in 2018, at the Chamber Fine Art in New York in a solo called Ravaged. She is on the board of Yayasan Kebaya, a HIV/AIDS homeless shelter in Yogya. She has also taken part in art fairs such as Art Central Hong Kong and Art Jakarta. She was featured in Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing (Phaidon).