I found this very moving.

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This video shows the winner of "Ukraineâ??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 womanâ??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 womanâ??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 thereâ??s surely no bigger compliment."

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg

 

Oh, yes, saw a while a go, and its been posted in here already. Really moving.

 

Ooops! Sorry about that. :ntwrth: :ntwrth:

If Mods want to delete this duplicate post, please do.

 

Glad it hasn't been deleted, even though a duplicate, nothing wrong with recaptivating us with such a wonderful work of art. To think of the talent that some people have......it was amazing Thanks for resurfacing it!

 

Thanking you for sharing this with us -I hadn't seen it before and I'm sure there will be others pleased to see it

 

I hadn't seen it before and was fascinated by her most unusual talent.
Loved it.

 

I certainly haven't seen it before and it was well worth the time to sit here and watch this amazingly talented young lady at work.

Thank you for sharing that with us kindredspirit.

 

A very talented young lady.