Wow

[Justme]

I saw this on another forum & thought you lot might like it.

 

PLEASE READ BELOW:

 

 

 

The video you're about to see 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.

 

 

Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.

 

 

Ukraine's Got Talent

 

 

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhf3OvRXKg]Direct linky to video[/ame]

[alex_m]

saw that last year, it's bloody amazing.

not cry worthy though.

[Tommy_B]

She alright. But she's no Stavros Flatley......

[Justme]

saw that last year, it's bloody amazing.

not cry worthy though.

 

Yeh she has some skill to do that live.

 

Perhaps if you had lived through it at the time or are still living with the "fall out" you might think differently?

[alex_m]

Perhaps if you had lived through it at the time or are still living with the "fall out" you might think differently?

 

yeh i know, just kidding

[Saw-sick Steve]

Yeh she has some skill to do that live.

 

Perhaps if you had lived through it at the time or are still living with the "fall out" you might think differently?

 

Amazing, what a talent and very moving. A lot of the deaths in WW2 we in the west put down as ''Russian'' were in fact Ukranian or Belarussian. I think Ukraine suffered the worst per-capita casualty rate of any country, even worse than Poland.