Ukrainian Sand Artist Extraordinaire!

Kesniya Simonova is a very talented Ukrainian woman. She is a sand animator, ie she creates pictures and animations using sand as her primary material.

In 2009, she won the Ukrainian equivalent of "Britain's Got Talent" with her fantastic animation of Ukraine during The Great Patriotic War.

It's a fantastic, moving, emotional, and very artistic vision of the horrors of war. Enjoy the video below.

PS - it's 8 minutes, but please watch it all, especially those of you who are Metallica fans ;)