Tuesday, January 19, 2010

ASTONISHING

Don’t miss this amazing Video Clip . . first read it FULLY..
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 I I .  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. 
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t 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. 
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n 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.  There’s surely no bigger compliment."

8 comments:

Lol said...

Gobsmacking, truly.

Julie said...

Wow. sorry I´ve not written sooner. Been running around like a headless chicken. Anyway e-mail me on j.e.cunningham at gmail.com and we´ll discuss your visit to Berlin. I´m looking forward to it :o)

Julie said...

Truly amazing....

Iris said...

This is just unbelievable.

Susan said...

Poignant

Anonymous said...

What unbelievable talent. Thanks for sharing Melinda Allen

The Second Half said...

Thank you for sharing this. Thought provoking and sad yet with such simple beauty so much is said. True art.

Dianne

Lisa said...

Amazing, really amazing. Thanks for posting it as I would have missed it.