My mom sent me this in an E mail and I thought it was cool so thought I would share.
Dont miss this amazing Video Clip. First read it
properly.
This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got
Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures
on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people
were affected by the German invasion during World War
II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is
mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in
the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about
$130,000.00
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting
holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then
warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby
arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war
returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from
which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and
sad, before the image turns into a monument to an
Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the
viewer is looking out on the monument from within a
house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a
man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the
glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted
in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11
million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says: "I find it difficult enough to create
art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand
and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war
is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience
members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger
compliment."
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