A set of image cards is laid out in front of you. Some catch your eye straight away. Others you pick up, then put back. You choose one, but you can’t quite say why yet.

That choice is where BISOUme’s aesthetic exploration game begins.

The cards we developed for the workshop bring together different colours, forms, textures and compositions. In the first round, we ask you to choose a few. Then we lay your selections side by side and look at them together: what draws you to these cards?

You point to a jacket. Is it the defined shoulders you like, or the colour? Would you still choose it if it were made from a softer fabric? We cover the belt in another image. Does the look still interest you?

The game unfolds through these small changes. We explore your first answer, suggest another possibility and look again. “I like this” gradually becomes something you can describe more precisely: a strong line, an unexpected pairing, or a single detail within a look.

How the cards read together matters too. An image you chose on its own can offer a new clue alongside the others. You may have returned to the same structure across very different outfits. Or perhaps there is something in every selection that gently disrupts the order. Together, we follow those recurring details.

Then we turn the discovery on the table into something you can try on yourself. Draping a jacket over your shoulders. Tucking in one side of a shirt. Taking off a necklace. Adding a belt. Through a small change to your own look, you explore what interested you in the images you chose. You try it, take a look and, if you wish, try something else.

BISOUme’s process follows these three stages: Pull. Read. One Move. First, you choose what draws you in. Then we explore the details and recurring elements in your selections together. Finally, you turn an idea into a visible experiment.

On 19 September, we brought this process into a group workshop on Büyükada. Choosing cards, talking through selections and trying small styling changes were all part of the gathering. Working together adds another point of curiosity: your reason for choosing a card may be different from the reason the person beside you chose the very same one. The conversation opens up as you show each other those details.

Aesthetic Decision Reading makes room for this process in a one-to-one session. Through cards and questions, we explore your aesthetic preferences together. If you wish, we try out an idea from that exploration in your style.

You don’t need to arrive with the right words to describe your taste. The cards are on the table. Which one do you reach for first?