WHWC Monthly Theme #2: Children's art
april 27 2025
I love children's art. I love modern artists because they drew like children and I am overly sentimental about children's artwork hung up on the walls of elementary schools. It's funny because I don't like being around kids and I could never become an elementary school teacher, but I have a lot of respect for the few teachers there are that genuinely take children seriously, especially as maybe the most vulnerable group of people on the planet. and I think that nostalgia makes people forget that being a kid kind of sucks sometimes… I remember wondering as a child why adults couldn't remember what it felt like to be a kid. it sometimes sounds ridiculous to empathize with children but you have to remember that they are experiencing things like grief for the very first time and something like losing a toy can really feel like the worst thing that's ever happened to them. but I'm going to stop before I get too deep because I really just wanted to share these elementary school assignments I found:
I got a 100 on my six page pokemon dissertation.
I think it says something about the french immersion program that my french has barely improved since.
what's the most important to me about children's art is that it proves that art can be expressive without any formal skill. it's sad to me that skill level stops people from making art because there really is something more fulfilling in the labour of the process than just a final product that's nice to look at… I wrote this for the April WHWC theme "nostalgia" because if there's something to mourn about being lost to the past, it's childhood creativity.
Further reading:
- the kindergarten teacher by Sara Colangelo
- the 400 blows by François Truffaut