WHWC Monthly Theme: Nostalgia

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 in schools. 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 the most vulnerable demographic on the planet. and I think that nostalgia makes people forget that children suffer; I remember wondering as a child why adults couldn't remember what it felt like to be me.

I got a 100 on my six page pokemon dissertation.

I think it says something about the Canadian french immersion program that my french hasn't improved since.

what's the most important to me about children's art is that it proves that art can be expressive without the use of formal skill. there really is something more fulfilling in the labour of the process than 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 directed by Sara Colangelo
-- the 400 blows directed by François Truffaut