Original sentence: " Her medium is very fine black volcanic sand."This incredible “sand animation” is performed by the 2009 winner of the Ukraine “Got Talent” television series, Kseniya Simonova."This was a part of the competition Ukraine's Got Talent, and the girl did win the First Place."What she depicts is love and war, set amidst the turmoil of The Great Patriotic War, or as we call it in America, WWII.Apparently, it is telling the story of life during WWII, which would explain the emotional reactions of some of the audience.Could that be the reason why we often get quiet and look up into the sky with sadness.From " Random Thoughts blog.Her "Sand Animation" won Ukraine's Got Talent.Her name is Kseniya Simonova, and she is Russian living in Ukraine.It was a conflict that saw nearly one in four Ukrainians killed.It was completely unexpected and has begun to make a worldwide imptact.Kseniya is married, and has a young son.Since those bygone days until now they have been flying over us and sending us their calls.The 24-yr-old atist’s prize was 1,000,000 Ukrainian hryvnia (April 2009, approximately US $125,000).The Music uses, among other things, music from Apolyptica.The composition she is "performing" is called a "Sand Requiem", and it is a short version of World War II on the territory of Ukraine, or Western Russia, or possibly Bielorussia.The experience is like watching Picasso paint Guernica.The most emotional place is accompanied by a song "Cranes" which goes something like this: "Sometimes I dream that our soldiers who did not return from the bloody fields, did not lie down into our earth, but turned into white cranes.The scene ends in 1945, with the death of Hitler and the end of a long war.The text at the end where they’re staring at the sailor’s ghost says: “You are always nearby”.Ukraine represented almost 20 percent of all the causalities suffered during WWII.Ukraine was probably the area most devastated in the war, even more than Germany.Update II.Update: from , WOSU<, an American Public Radio Station:.You will see that she really strikes a cord with her audience which weeps through a portion of the show