An Incredible Artist

My mom sent me this video below in an e-mail. Please read the text below before watching the video.


This is the text included in the e-mail:
"This video shows the winner of "Ukraine's Got Talent", artist 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 prize of about 75,000 pounds (about $122,411).
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 in a monument of an Unknown Soldier.


This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window, as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from 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 eleven million deaths out of a population of 42 million."


The artist, 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 the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there's surely no bigger compliment." You can see more of her art on YouTube.