A Ukrainian memoir in sand

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  • s-p 09.25.2009

    I found her a few weeks ago and posted one of her sand paint­ings on my blog too. She is amaz­ing, not just for her artistry but for her sto­ry­telling in “mov­ing icons”. She has quite a bit of stuff on youtube, I could spend a lot of time there for sure.

  • Gretchen­joanna

    Thank you, thank you for post­ing this. I saw it some time back on Face­book and it IS really amaz­ing and dra­matic. And edu­ca­tional, when I read people’s notes on YouTube explain­ing it.

  • Anam Cara

    Who knew that ani­mated sand art even existed? I am so thank­ful that we have the tech­nol­ogy to share this because and entire piece of art was cre­ated, came to fruition, and ceased to exist in under 10 min­utes! This is so amaz­ing. What an incred­i­ble God given tal­ent and imag­i­na­tion to do this. To God be the Glory!

  • Grace

    The artistry on dis­play here just seems amaz­ing to me, and it seems all the more evoca­tive because it is fleet­ing. Glad to know it wasn’t just me. :-)

  • Word­mama

    Man, I am totally get­ting you a bag of sand for Christmas.

  • Word­mama

    But Seri­ously Folks. The story is mov­ing and the art leaves me speech­less. It also makes me want to know more about the his­tory, because it looks like she’s refer­ring to spe­cific events and I don’t know what they are.

  • Grace

    I won­dered that, too. There’s some of it that you don’t have to have spelled out for you. But oth­ers … ? Greg told me that the pointy build­ing that she cre­ates about 3/4 of the way through is a war memo­r­ial that all the Ukraini­ans would recognize.

    It *looks* like at the end Dad is com­ing home to his wife and child, and they’re see­ing him through the win­dow, which is nice. But, as you say, I might be miss­ing something.

  • Grace

    PS: Bag of sand for Christ­mas: sounds a whole lot like get­ting a stock­ing full of coal. Which, come to think of it, I deserve. But how did you know? ;-)

    I’d love to goof around with the sand and plate glass thing, because I really like work­ing fast. It’s a given that I would never get results as good as these sand ani­ma­tors. But hey, to get to play with sand when you’re all old and stuff — sounds like fun!

  • BJohnD

    The Nazi inva­sion of the Ukraine (part of the USSR at the time, of course): Imag­ine the worst sce­nario you can, then dou­ble or triple it. At least half the pop­u­la­tion killed, for one thing. The coun­try laid waste. And this just a decade after Stalin’s *cre­ated* famine in the land.

  • BJohnD

    On that happy note, I should add that I saw this some time ago and also found it aston­ish­ingly beau­ti­ful and poignant.

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