The Force Of Human Creativity

I received this in an email. I was in awe at the force of Human cre­ativ­ity and the power of non-verbal communication.

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.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

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