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YouTube - Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing This video shows the
winner of 2009's " 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 $75,000.
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 good-bye.
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."
Please take time out to see this
amazing piece of art.