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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Helvetica size=4>Sand Painting
Video<BR>12/18/09 00:34am Reply *This video shows the
winner of "* *<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region>?s<BR>Got
Talent"**, Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on
an<BR>illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by
the<BR>German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is
a<BR>strange one, is mesmeric to watch.*<BR><BR>*The images, projected onto a
large screen, moved many in the audience to<BR>tears and she won the top prize
of about ?75,000.*<BR><BR>*She begins by creating a scene showing a couple
sitting holding hands on a<BR>bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes
appear and the happy scene is<BR>obliterated.*<BR><BR>*It is replaced by a
woman?s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the<BR>woman smiles again Once
again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand<BR>into chaos from which a
young woman?s face appears.*<BR><BR>*She quickly becomes an old widow, her face
wrinkled and sad, before the<BR>image turns into a monument to an Unknown
Soldier.*<BR><BR>*This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer
is looking<BR>out on the monument from within a house.*<BR><BR>*In the final
scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing<BR>outside, with his
hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye..*<BR><BR>*The Great Patriotic
War, as it is called in* *<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region> , resulted in one in<BR>four
of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of
a<BR>population of 42 million.*<BR><BR>**<BR>*Kseniya Simonova says: *<BR>*"I
find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils
or<BR>paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art,
especially<BR>when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some
audience<BR>members to tears. And there?s surely no bigger
compliment."*<BR>*Please take time out to see this amazing piece of
art.*<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>click on the link below
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