I teared up

[Not that Bob]

Not so much at the subject matter, but at the sheer artistry.

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[utmck]

Very talented, but I missed on the significance.

 

[Not that Bob]

I guess the below explanation got left out, sorry.

A must watch - read the outline of the pictures first - then go to the sand painting - you won't believe what you are seeing, but first, read this all the way through…
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 pressed against the glass, saying
goodbye. The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine , resulted in one in four of the population’s 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."

 

[CrazyFoo']

wish i would've seen the explanation before watching. I knew it was about war and figured it was eastern-European, but didn't get which war until the end.

Thanks for this. I loved it.

At the end, there is a rendition of a Metallica song "Nothing Else Matters", or is that an older song that Metallica ripped off?

 

[general35]

that truly is amazing

 

[nych 1]

Apocalytica's version of Nothing Else Matters.