The Unschooled Artists

but being home with my kids turned out to be more inspiring than any art school I can imagine. When my wife and I sent them off to school, I worried less about whether the classroom would rob them of their creativity and more about what would happen to my creativity without them around to inspire me.

Then came the pandemic and the lockdown.

My boys, Owen, 7, and Jules, 5, have been home for over 130 days now, and they’re back to their preschool levels of activity, filling the house with drawings, music, and other forms of creative chaos.

It isn’t all fun and games. Much of the art they make is their way of processing fear and anxiety about the uncontrollable terrors going on outside our house.