Nara’s fascination with childhood and contemporary culture made me curious about his own experience and thoughts on history, cultural memories and dreams for the future. Childhood is deeply filled with a sense of futurity. It manifests our own dreams, as the children of today will live in the world that we make for them. Nara’s children are complicated characters, possessing almost nothing that would be called naivety or innocence, instead looking back at us with eyes that are already wise, perceptive, and unsurprised.