Be sure to read this write up before you open
the performance - you'll probably re-read it after seeing the video, then
watch it again.....it is astonishing!!!
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 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.
One art critic said:
"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.."
Click here to watch this brilliant performance
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