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Onfim's world: Child artists in history

37 points by benbreen 1y ago

jayrot 1y ago
If you've got 12 minutes to spare, I highly recommend this video about Onfim by Trey the Explainer. [https://youtu.be/H_nT6EFUZmI?si=RcFJeGjzcjkoVlh8 https://youtu.be/H_nT6EFUZmI?si=RcFJeGjzcjkoVlh8] But only if you wish to experience sonder.
- ljf 1y ago
  I love falling into sonder - on a bus journey or in a plane, or just people watching in a pub - life of this around us (and before and ahead of us) is just as wonderfully complex and interesting as our own. So thank you, I'll watch the video now.
  - ljf 1y ago
    Finally watched the video and fully felt chills when I ended it - amazing to consider his life, and also what will remain of me in 40 or less years time...
lovegrenoble 1y ago
Nice. Novgorod is a gem for those who are into history and culture, sometimes they call it Russia Florence. I wish one day I could visit it.
lbeckman314 1y ago
> "[His drawings] force us to see childhood not as something that takes place in an eternal present, but as something with as deep a history as anything else that is a central part of what it is to be human." Absolutely love rediscovering Onfim's drawings thank you for submitting this. Cool site from with more birchbark records: https://web.archive.org/web/20250114034538/https://gramoty.ru/birchbark https://web.archive.org/web/20250114034538/https://gramoty.r... Previous discussion (of Onfim's Wikipedia): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089343
macintux 1y ago
Related from a month ago, including discussion of this post's submission at the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706037
pavel_lishin 1y ago
> For every unique survival like these, there are many millions that are lost. Children are continually making creative marks (as any parent with young kids knows all too well — cleaning them up has been a central preoccupation of my life over the past couple years). When mine started producing art in large amounts, as children are wont to do, I started photographing them all and putting them into an album to preserve them, instead of being buried under mountains of papers. I hope some day in the future, my kid will be able to go through the artwork and get something neat out of it.

37 points by benbreen 1y ago

If you've got 12 minutes to spare, I highly recommend this video about Onfim by Trey the Explainer. [https://youtu.be/H_nT6EFUZmI?si=RcFJeGjzcjkoVlh8 https://youtu.be/H_nT6EFUZmI?si=RcFJeGjzcjkoVlh8] But only if you wish to experience sonder.

ljf 1y ago
I love falling into sonder - on a bus journey or in a plane, or just people watching in a pub - life of this around us (and before and ahead of us) is just as wonderfully complex and interesting as our own. So thank you, I'll watch the video now.
- ljf 1y ago
  Finally watched the video and fully felt chills when I ended it - amazing to consider his life, and also what will remain of me in 40 or less years time...

lovegrenoble 1y ago

Nice. Novgorod is a gem for those who are into history and culture, sometimes they call it Russia Florence. I wish one day I could visit it.

lbeckman314 1y ago

> "[His drawings] force us to see childhood not as something that takes place in an eternal present, but as something with as deep a history as anything else that is a central part of what it is to be human." Absolutely love rediscovering Onfim's drawings thank you for submitting this. Cool site from with more birchbark records: https://web.archive.org/web/20250114034538/https://gramoty.ru/birchbark https://web.archive.org/web/20250114034538/https://gramoty.r... Previous discussion (of Onfim's Wikipedia): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089343

macintux 1y ago

Related from a month ago, including discussion of this post's submission at the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43706037

pavel_lishin 1y ago

> For every unique survival like these, there are many millions that are lost. Children are continually making creative marks (as any parent with young kids knows all too well — cleaning them up has been a central preoccupation of my life over the past couple years). When mine started producing art in large amounts, as children are wont to do, I started photographing them all and putting them into an album to preserve them, instead of being buried under mountains of papers. I hope some day in the future, my kid will be able to go through the artwork and get something neat out of it.