Tate Modern's approach to learning encourages students to think not of one correct reading or interpretation of an artwork, but of plural readings. These will depend on who the viewer is, and when, where and how he or she encounters a work of art. To construct meanings, therefore, the viewer needs to be aware of the experiences they bring to looking, as well as the information an artwork holds.

As the work, and the In Focus display as a whole, is concerned with issues of race and colour, responses will clearly vary according to the cultural mix of your school or area. But as well as race it is also about image - how we see our selves and how we are seen by others. In both cases these issues are important to us all.

Discussion points

• What are your first reactions to the work?

• Why do you think or feel this way?

• Are there any images in this work which are more (or less) familiar to you than others? (maybe the cartoon images from comics, the leaves, or the patterns...)

• Do you have any pictures of yourself that are at all like this? (pupils may have used photo-booths, for example)

• Does anything you see relate to your own personal experience, or is it about 'someone else'?