Thursday, August 13, 2009

Performance Art


Here's something different: Kseniya Simonova is a sand painter. She lives in Ukraine, and was a contestant on the Ukraine version of "America's Got Talent."

They gave her eight and a half minutes for this. I guess one of the advantages of having lived behind the Iron Curtain (I can't think of a second) is you still have an attention span. Commercial television hasn't taken over your brain patterns yet.

For her performance, Ms. Simonova painted the Nazi invasion of Ukraine:



By the way: she won.

I found this on Huffington Post.


2 comments:

Ted (Chicago) said...

Wow. Thank you for sharing this.

Kay said...

Amazing, and very moving.