The Ukraine Has Talent

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[FONT=&quot]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.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]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 [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]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. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]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. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]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. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Kseniya Simonova says: [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]"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."[/FONT]

YouTube - Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

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[Gymjunkie]

I am blown away...just WHOAHHH!!... What a moment.. it touched everyone in the room and esp. older people that where part of unfortunate events...


P.S. And she is gorgeous!!!

 

[PaulRobert]

WOW!! That video was just amazing.

 

[EastWind]

That's the PRECISE meaning of Talent!!! Beautiful!

 

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[Bond]

Amazing skills...

 

[bflbob]

P.S. And she is gorgeous!!!

That sure doesn't hurt!

I think it is amazing that someone like this could probably do a live "concert" to a good sized crowd, creating art that can't be owned.

It is sort of like monetizing an "experience".

You can't take it with you. It makes no sense to record it to watch multiple times. Most of the worth is in viewing it one time.

Pretty neat, overall.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Amazing, I could see her selling out concert like events when choreogrpahed to music. Or, corporate functions ... lots of opportunity here for an extremely talented woman (and yes, gorgeous too!)

 

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[GlobalWealth]

I used this as my FB and Twitter update. Absolutely amazing.

 

[EastWind]

the amazing thing is she's been doing this for a year!

 

[bflbob]

Wow...this is a concert!

Catch the timing to the music and sound effects.

YouTube - Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing

 

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