War

"You are always near, 1945" -Kseniya Simonova

Here is an amazing artist from the TV show "Ukraine’s Got Talent". Kseniya Simonova uses backlit sand to recount Germany conquering Ukraine in the second world war. She brings calm, then conflict. A couple on a bench become a woman’s face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier. A mother and child see the ghost of the fallen father as she ends with the words, "You are always near".

Bottom Line

"War is hell" - William Tecumseh Sherman
It is sometimes necessary or unavoidable but never desirable.