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A must see for anyone into art!

Post by gmart » December 30th, 2009, 7:30 pm

Its rare that I find myself both humbled and inspired at the same time. This film clip did that to me. Please take the time to view it. It is exceptional.

Happy New Year to my friends at Studio Eight.

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 £75,000.
>>>
>>> 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=20 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."
>>>
>>> Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg#t=00

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Post by stilltrucking » December 30th, 2009, 9:22 pm

10-4
must see
I could not take my eyes away
hypnotic
thank you very much for posting

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Post by judih » December 30th, 2009, 11:14 pm

i'm crying as well. what amazing real-time depictions.

thanks, gmart. inspiring, as you say.

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Post by Doreen Peri » December 30th, 2009, 11:41 pm

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this here, Garry!
(I pasted the "embed code" so it can be watched right here on S8, as well as clicking on your link)

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Post by SadLuckDame » December 30th, 2009, 11:55 pm

I watched this earlier, and it had me teary eyed as well.
A touching and emotional artistry.
`Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,' Alice went on...`when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you'd have deserved it, you
little mischievous darling!
~Lewis Carroll

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Post by Arcadia » December 31st, 2009, 10:24 am

moving performance, moving hands, moving sand, moving images, moving sounds! gracias for sharing & feliz año nuevo also for you, garry! :)

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Post by mtmynd » December 31st, 2009, 11:56 am

Very emotional piece and one I thank you for sharing with us...

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