Boneyard Series by Nela V Steric

My Boneyard Series are the combinations of emotional, sarcastic, and self-search responses of the horrific outcomes of wars. Several art pieces in particular, are closely related to causalities of a former Yugoslav civil war, and Serbs' role in it in particular. Serbs took part in a civil war, but afterwards, until this day, have not openly accepted their role in the war. It bothers me that most Serbs are still turning a blind eye to the events that happened. Since I am originally from there, I choose to sarcastically name my works by mass grave numbers, and act as I am fully accepting their denial of those events. I also self-search and recognize my own shortcomings, negative - and the way I call them - "Genocidal roots", and show it on my works. This way, I am not acting as a moral "high judge" but as a part of their nation, trying to understand them and my own soul. It could be related to the Serbian civil war of the 90's, or it can be viewed as a general dramatic views of casualties of all human wars.

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