Looking Back at Home

Looking Back at Home is an art project that provides a safe way for children in non-war zones to participate in the discussion of war, developing awareness and empathy for those with different backgrounds and life experiences. If you know anyone who would like to participate in Looking Back at Home, please email team@teralta.art.

For this project, children are given cut-out paper figures and asked to draw around these figures in a way that relates to their own lives.

Figures are chosen from historical drawings from WWII and images from Ukrainian hospitals. By asking children to use these figures, their creations draw connections between their own experiences and images across time and geographic locations.

As a result, the children become aware of the impacts of war, build compassion for those who have experienced it, and increase their empathy with those different from them.

Their completed drawings are then collected and presented as an art project to help raise funds and awareness of children’s rights in war time. For example, drawings may show up in a video for an exhibition.

The gallery below showcases some results from one of our Looking Back at Home sessions: