…AND the first time I’ve posted in awhile due to some life-altering circumstances, so….
…how special is it that some extraordinary young artists, experiencing the most unimaginable of life-altering circumstances, came across my news feed recently?
“Their sense of artistic expression is what every adult wishes they had,”
Christina Wyshnytzky, assistant curator at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago
Even if you don’t like looking at pictures of war, please take a moment to view the war through the eyes of Ukrainian children and take in their completely innocent experience.
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Among the pieces packed into two suitcases and flown to Chicago were finger paintings by toddlers and intricate drawings by teenage art students.
Julia Jacobs, Tanks and Teddy Bears: Ukrainian Children Paint the War, The New York Times, January 3, 2023
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