Sarajevo Rose

A Sarajevo Rose is a cement  trench  produced by a plaster shell's explosion that was later filled with red resin. The mortar rounds create a unprecedented fragmentation sample that looks almost floral in arrangement.

Equally, during the Siege of Sarajevo, it was a section of intense urban warfare and suffered thousands of shell explosions. The marked concrete samples are a unique trait to the city.

Sarajevo, as the capital city of our country, was a middlemost area of conflict during the Bosnian War. On 2 May 1992, The Bosnian Serb Army, began imposing a blockade on all traffic in and out the Sarajevo.  

The Bosnian Serb Army continuously bombarded the civilian population, to prevent the home army from deploying. Similarly, every day, more than 300 shell rounds were fired into the city.

Throughout the Sarajevo, blast marks have been filled with red resin to designate where actually plaster blasts resulted in one or more deaths.
As the asphalt is replaced, the Sarajevo roses are disappearing.