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martinbsmithjr
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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2010, 01:32:29 PM » |
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OK I wrote to my friend in Prague and here is what he says about it:
This brilliant young goddess is telling a sad tale about the effects of the German/Soviet war on the Ukrainians, who were, of course, caught in the middle. It starts with a young couple holding hands on a bench. They're interrupted by the bombings by the Germans (the background voice is Govorit Moskva, the official Soviet radio station, warning of the threat to the motherland and exhorting the masses to patriotism), the guy is (presumably) killed. The woman is grieving, but then a baby comes and she smiles again. Then, another wave of war, and the beautiful young woman quickly becomes old and wrinkled. Then we have a tomb to an unknown soldier, surrounded by a city. The artist frames the scene with a window, and a woman appears inside. Then a man appears on the street, his hands pressed against the window as he says farewell, off to the war, apparently, and the artist draws what is apparently his son in his mother's arms to bid his dad farewell.
To make a long story short, I think the message is that war sucks for the victims, something the poor Ukrainians know altogether too much about. Kseniya Simonova has been doing sand painting for only one year. I'm completely in love with her (along with millions of others, I suspect).
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