a.baker
02-17-2010, 07:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg
Pure Talent...........
This is an Amazing video. First read this before watching. 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 different 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."
Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.
Pure Talent...........
This is an Amazing video. First read this before watching. 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 different 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."
Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.