Soon, stories slowly started to surface: an uncle: ‘Oh yes, your mother’s grandfather was killed, right over there, beside the sofa.’ An aunt: ‘You know, this church was used as a hospital during the war.’ A friend: ‘This jam was made in the same factory that was used as a rape camp.’ When people were telling me these stories, I had flashbacks to the footage on television. One in particular: it was pitch black and a wick was lit. A female nurse stood with a candle. Then I saw patients in beds and cots. It looked like the setting was in a hospital during a blackout. Then I saw icons of Saints and the interiors – they were in a church.
Novka Cosovic
above: Novka Cosovic, Modified Architectural Graphic Standards, Ecclesiastic Churches. left: June 14, 1993 Nova Bila, Bosnia and Herzegovina Patients wounded in the Yugoslavian Civil War recover in a makeshift hospital set in a converted church in the Croatian enclave of Nova Bila in central Bosnia. Conflict among the Croats, Serbs, and Muslims in Bosnia began when Bosnia declared independence in early 1992, several
months after other regions of Yugoslavia entered into war.
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