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Trees as Militarized Bodies

Interview 21: Protective Plane Trees in Front of Government Office



"is this a plane? "Yeah." It is a plane. It has a kind of base, like it has been plopped on the ground, or its roots have been moving and pushing up. It has this knob on the northern side. It's so big that we can all just hold hands around it, the three of us. Speculations on why it remains: it is exposed, I think, to the observatory actually... maybe not. It also might serve as protection for the Roman-looking buildings behind us. It has a face on it - the tree is smiling. The tree is bigger than the building. This whole park is all plane trees; it's a Austro-Hungarian plantain. A ministry is behind it. "Vanjskih Poslova." Also known as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs"

 Location: Park Mirze i Davora, Sarajevo 71000.







Sarajevo: City Under Siege (1994) BBC documentary
~35:00 militarized trees, “We didn’t know anything. We hid behind trees.”




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