Simonova did not go through years of practice in the medium of sand like many artists do with their mediums, but started as an experiment to earn more money for her and her husband. She started off using beach and river sand but it was too course for her hands and did not move around the glass like it should have. After searching for a few days, they discovered volcanic black sand which is a really fine and soft sand made from lava rock and other various minerals. Her canvas is a table with a glass table top with white paper taped to the bottom and a light underneath the table.
She had a passion for folk stories and history and tells some of these stories in sand art form, moving from one scene to the next by manipulation of the previous scene almost as if the elements of each scene were already there in the sand. Not many words can explain just how awesome these sand stories are. So a single music track illustrates what is going on in the picture. Other than that, complete silence.
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