{"id":208,"date":"2009-09-27T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/09\/27\/breathtaking-sand-animation\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:15","slug":"breathtaking-sand-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/09\/27\/breathtaking-sand-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathtaking sand animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what to say about this &#8211; except to call it magic. I can see that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kseniya_Simonova\">Kseniya Simonova<\/a> is creating the images on the stage but I can hardly believe it. It&#8217;s hard to imagine but it might be even more powerful if I could understand the language. It&#8217;s a very powerful piece of performance art.<\/p>\n<p>Simonova&#8217;s performance won her the Ukraine&#8217;s version of &#8220;Britain&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; last June. The YouTube video has racked up 2.5 million views so far. Her winning performance was a moving recounting of Germany conquering Ukraine during World War II. From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradioblog\/2009\/aug\/13\/ukranian-sand-artist\">article<\/a> in the Guardian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She brings calm, then conflict. A couple on a bench become a woman&#8217;s face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier. Simonova looks like some vengeful Old Testament deity as she destroys then recreates her scenes &#8211; with deft strokes, sprinkles and sweeps she keeps the narrative going. She moves the judges to tears as she subtitles the final scene &#8220;you are always near&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch it for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\">Link to YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what to say about this &#8211; except to call it magic. I can see that Kseniya Simonova is creating the images on the stage but I can hardly believe it. It&#8217;s hard to imagine but it might be even more powerful if I could understand the language. It&#8217;s a very powerful piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-3m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}