Michele Shea said “Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God”. Watch Kseniya Simonova doing some truly captivating sand animations and you will understand what the above phrase means.
Before you watch the video I’d like to describe briefly what story she is trying to tell here. It’s a war story on Nazi invasion of Ukraine. She starts by depicting a soldier in a battlefield where bullets are flying and his wife is sitting at home next to her baby.
The song from Schindler’s list in the mid provides immense intensity and she portraits cranes imagining that soldiers who die in war turn into white cranes. In the end she writes “You are always near”.
Now have a look:
