Ajim Juxta, trained as an architect before pivoting to art, a background that undergirds the lattice-like scaffolds and skeletal "monuments" that populate his canvases. Tugu: Gelap Misteri (2017) belongs to the TUGU/ UGUT cycle, paintings that re-imagine monuments (tugu) as dystopian ruins conceived just after the artist won Khazanah Nasional's ACME Studio London residency. The subtitle, "Dark Mystery", nods to what one critic called Ajim's "grey worlds of skeletal structure and storm-cloud atmosphere." Across the charcoal ground, tangled white and ochre lines evoke collapsed scaffolding, while smoky impasto blooms rise like blast debris. A faint central axis hints at a toppled obelisk, paying tribute to Joseph Cornell's box-assemblages, whose enigmatic galaxies Ajim has long admired. In Tugu: Gelap Misteri, Ajim compresses architecture, archaeology and apocalyptic myth into a single, turbulent field; an elegy for edifices both national and personal, where every utopia casts a long shadow of its own.