America’s Got Talent: The Champions is a competition which features finalists, winners, and other contestants who, despite not winning, made a strong impression in past seasons of the ‘Got Talent’ series. A perfect example of this is standout talent is Kseniya Simonova who is a young sand artist from Ukraine.

Back in 2009, she won Ukraine’s Got Talent with her fascinating performance and just recently, she won over the judges and the audience of America’s Got Talent: The Champions and earned herself the rare ‘Golden Buzzer’. Hitting the Golden Buzzer means you immediately progress to the next round regardless of the other judges’ votes. Kseniya Simonova was one of the very few in the history of the show to warrant the Golden Buzzer. The story she told through her amazing sand art tugged on the heartstrings of everybody present, gaining one positive reaction after another throughout her performance.

Before she began creating art on the big stage, she gave a brief introduction of the story she wanted to tell. It was about a child who grew up to become an artist but ended up forgetting his parents, only realizing his mistake when it was too late. Kseniya’s piece began with a drawing of the vast galaxy, which she used as a backdrop for the first part of her story: the beginning of a family, complete with a pregnant woman, her husband, and the infant. It then transitioned to the next stage which showed the child reading, then later on holding an artist’s palette and painting on a canvas.

The story ended with an illustration of the adult artist standing near the hunched body of his father, a silhouette which Kseniya turned into a gravestone. The performance told a deep story which really resonated with everybody in the audience and at home watching. It showed the importance of cherishing every moment with one’s parents, making the most of each moment spent no matter what life brings, and not waiting until it is too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvA3GgRbJIg