Coming from a country torn by a civil war, and later working in Afghanistan as a contractor the instances of human traits, i.e., destruction, wars, made profound influence on who Goran Maric is as a human being as well as an artist.  For that reason, he wants to revisit these memories but not as a direct description of the destruction wars leave behind, rather as a reflection of relations, or contradictions between perceived fragility of human flesh and or spirit in relation to materials associated with strength and endurance, i.e., stones, concrete blocks, bunkers and or sandbags. 

Every military base at the end of the day is a fortification designed for the defense of territories in warfare.  In within their enclosure life takes on its own routine.  Sandbags and the structures built using sandbags are important decorum of the life on the base in a war zone.  What makes them appealing is their architectural structure when filled by send, or as a structure built piling them up.  At first they look strong but as time goes the nature retakes ownership of these structures eroding the material and allowing the signs of life to slowly find their ways out of sand, gravel or concrete T-Walls. 

The markers of sincere humanity depicted in the video installation portrays one of Goran’s Afghani coworkers signing a love song while preparing the sandbags for their night shift to work with around the base. In this abyss of war Goran was searching for moments of sincerity as signs of hope being the flowers reaching the sun or coworkers passionately singing about love.