Introduction TO VTS EXERCISES

The blog posts on this page offer a series of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) exercises. You are invited to carefully look at the images by yourself or with others and guide this process with the 3 VTS questions:

- What's going on in this image?

- What do you see that makes you say that?

- What more can you find?

Listed below VTS exercise #1 you can find brief posts with some contextual information for each VTS exercise. The contextual information was deliberately posted separately, to encourage you to focus on unpacking your personal interpretation of the images with VTS first, without contextual information steering the (collective) meaning making process. This is because the purpose of a VTS conversation is not about getting the image 'right': There are no right or wrong ways of looking at art. The aim of a VTS exercise is to explore freely and connect what you see, to what you feel, think and communicate.

For more information about VTS, click on this link