Why Children from Chorratan Paint Mount Ararat: Pashinyan

I visited the Chorratan village in the enlarged Berd community. Unexpectedly, I was approached and told that there is an aesthetic center here, where the kids are painting. This was mentioned by the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan.

“During this time, the children were preparing, bringing their paintings and displaying them. I asked one child, ‘What did you paint?’ and he replied, ‘Mount Ararat.’ When I asked the next one, he said he painted the Genocide Memorial. Then I looked out the window. In Berd, there is that beautiful nature: majestic mountains and forests.

I wanted to ask the children, but I didn’t. I returned to Yerevan with photos of those paintings and invited intellectuals, asking them why children do not paint their environment. You look out the window and see the magnificent mountains and forests of Berd. We detach our children from their real environment and place them in a different dimension, entering a race for ideals, whereas their environment is the real ideal,” said Pashinyan.