artist on youtube

[macmac]

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

I don't know if this will work as I've never posted a link before apart from on emails but here goes.If you get it it's lovely :)

[macmac]

[tonybloke]

yep, that worked!! ;) very good.

[emmy1978]

That's fantastic. I love Russians-they are so emotional!

[GrannieAnnie]

A beautiful art form. Thank you!

[Squash64]

She would have no trouble seeing things in Grandma's pond  :)
(see Can you see him too?)

[Digeroo]

Its lovely, except everytime she finished an image there was not enough time to take it in before it was wiped out.  I'd just like a few pauses for thought every now and then.  But why are the audience crying?

[macmac]

I think it's remembrance of the suffering during the war.
Didn't she work at speed :o
I think it must have been on their version of Britains got talent 'cos there's a logo on the screen

[emmy1978]

But why are the audience crying?

The images are evocative of the war and Russians are VERY emotional people. Maybe it's the Vodka.  ;D

[manicscousers]

possibly lost someone, very evocative  :)

[GrannieAnnie]

Maybe her drawings were taken from some war photos that were very familiar to people from the news? Just a guess.

[macmac]

Maybe her drawings were taken from some war photos that were very familiar to people from the news? Just a guess.

Whatever it was I think it's still relevant today :)

[Tee Gee]

Strange this should appear this morning as I have just received a copy of it in my e-mail today.

This is the facts that came with it;

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 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.


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."

[macmac]

Thanks TeeGee  :)

[betula]

Must admit I found it quite disturbing............very very talented though  :)