Week 2/15

a.) After the presentation on Tuesday about VTS I noticed how valuable it is to facilitate this type of discussion with students in the classroom. Students are free to use their imagination in sharing what they see in the picture. The teacher also never gives them a lead to what it may be or if a student is wrong or right. The students just use their knowledge to describe what they see and come up with a story. They start to develop ideas off of each other and sometimes they even disagree with one another but they defend and support their ideas. They are free to share whatever they are thinking and it gives them a friendly environment to do so. It is important to let the students discuss with one another and the teacher not always telling them exactly what something is before they even have a chance to think about it.


b.) I decided to Google "artwork" in order to find the picture my friends would discuss and I found this: 

c.) During the discussion I didn't give them any information about the art piece I just told them to tell me what they saw and what it is. My 2 friends immediately noticed the heart that says the word love and soon after they noticed the image to the left with a man covering his face. They started to say that it could be something with shame and love because of the 2 images they immediately noticed. Also they saw how in the middle it looked like a tree with different branches. They also so a city type of form in the middle where the heart is. They noticed a house with someone walking in and structures that look like buildings around the heart. They thought it could be about someones life in a city and some kind of connection with love and the shame they see with the man hiding. I noticed that they fed off each others' ideas and never really disagreed but instead built the story and ideas together.

I later told them that it was an art piece done for a gay film and that the artist was trying to portray the transformation and journey of the main character through this art piece. Therefore their ideas could be correct in saying it was about love, shame and the confusion of all of it together.