Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine's Got Talent)
Amazing video:
Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine's Got Talent)
Kseniya Simonova is a 24 year old Ukranian sand animation artist. She won top prize from “Ukraine’s Got Talent” as much £75,000.
Her drawing method is to use fingers to create a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table, lighted by candles.
Dramatic music make our imagination created so real. Her "sand painting" figures Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during World War II. Though her craft is so simple it is so touchful, wonderfully presented.
Here is a quote from http://babyboomeradvisorclub.com/2009/12/07/kseniya-simonova-sand-art-video/:
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.
In the Kseniya Simonova Sand Art Video, 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 stated that:
“I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo
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.”
