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  • From: Jeff York <jyork AT townofchapelhill.org>
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  • Cc: George Small <gsmallassociates AT nc.rr.com>
  • Subject: [Chpac-staff] interesting performance art
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:58:30 -0500

Commissioners,   I thought you might be interested in this.   jy

 

don't dare to miss this amazing Video Clip.


 

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 $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 and replaced by other rimages. 
  
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.


 

click on the link below - 


 

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


 

 

 

 

Jeffrey J. York

Public Arts Administrator

Town of Chapel Hill

Town Hall

405 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Chapel Hill, NC  27514

phone 919/968-2750

jyork AT townofchapelhill.org

 

 



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