PLEASE READ BELOW:
The video you're about to see 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 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.
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.
Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.
Ukraine's Got Talent
