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Ukraine has started a construction operation to build new protective casing, or ‘a sarcophagus’, over the damaged reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the early hours of 26 April 1986, one of four nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl power station exploded. 26 Years later contamination is still a problem, however, and disputes continue about how many will eventually die as a result of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

With tragedies like this numbers and facts are not enough to relay the story that devastated the lives of hundreds of thousand of people and still affects a lot of people in Ukraine and Belarus. It’s only through art that we’ll be able to feel some of the pain and suffering, the emotion or compassion needed to understand this dramatic story of humanity.

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Kseniya Simonova

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One artist that managed to tell this story is 24-year old Ukrainian artist Kseniya Simonova performing what is known as “sand animation.” Simonova uses a giant light box, dramatic music, her own imagination and “sand painting” skills. At 26 April 2011, Kseniya Simonova contributed a specially prepared animation at a memorial for Chernobyl in Rotterdam The Netherlands, marking the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

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Eternal Tears - sand animation by Kseniya Simonova

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Eternal Tears by Kseniya Simonova

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Eternal Tears by Kseniya Simonova

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The sand animation is dubbed ‘Eternal Tears’ and after watching this, you’ll understand why – I was completely dumbstruck and speechless. Amazing and breathtaking are words that just can’t accurately describe this performance.

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