Sand Drawing

[Cdubyah]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhf3OvRXKg&feature=player_embedded

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.

An 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."

[obesityrules]

bet that chick is a freak

[flounder]

Thats awesome and she's a looker as well.

[MattKatz]

Wow.....Just wow.

[garysol1]

Lucky candle

[KL9 F4i]

How the hell do you discover a talent like that? lol but it was pretty awesome

[Cheech]

Thats awesome and she's a looker as well.

I don't know about Eastern European women, but if it's anything like Central European girls, they're mostly all hot as hell. There's strangely not a lot of middle ground, either they are completely ugly or they make you want to propose to them right then and there.

[chevysoldier]

That was amazing to watch. She has some mad talent to be able to create something like that, and to tell a story with it.

[mello dude]

That is incredible -

MD

[SWing'R]

http://www.kseniyasimonova.com/

http://www.facebook.com/people/Kseniya-Simonova/100000219004005

[chevysoldier]

http://www.kseniyasimonova.com/

http://www.facebook.com/people/Kseniya-Simonova/100000219004005

stalker:p

[SWing'R]

stalker:p

[redkow97]

i thought the orchestral arrangement of Metallica was one of the coolest parts :-p

[Gump]

I don't like scarves

[Cdubyah]

i thought the orchestral arrangement of Metallica was one of the coolest parts :-p

Apocalyptica is the name of that group. Four cello players. They do a lot of Metallica stuff.