Kseniya Simonova (Ксенія Симонова) (born April 22, 1985) is a sand animator from Ukraine. She started drawing with sand after her business collapsed due to the 2008 financial crisis, and had less than a year's experience when she entered Ukraine's Got Talent. She became the 2009 winner of that show,[2] constructing an animation that portrayed life during the USSR's Great Patriotic War against the Third Reich in World War II.
Simonova won 1,000,000 Ukrainian Hryvnia (approx. USD125,000) for her first place in the show.[3] A YouTube video of the performance has received more than 15 million hits.
Although this artist appeared on a talent show i still find the work compelling. It is the here and now as the artists performs the work in front of an audience. What is also interesting is how a narrative is created as we move from one image to the next. There are cultural references that i don't understand nonetheless you can see the powerful effect it has on the audience.
I would like to experiment in the same way. Using a light bbox...as big as i can find and then getting some sand.
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