The face of the young woman with the sensual, slightly smiling lips is cropped. She is keeping her secret.
I was inspired to create this black and white portrait in collage technique by the Beatles song "Yesterday", especially the line "I don't know, she wouldn't say". Don't we all have to realise at some point that we never really know what is going on inside another person? In the case of a fresh relationship this can be a seductive thought, in the case of a break-up the same thought can drive us to despair.
The weathered look of the collage suggests that the sight of this face is in the past. The mysterious smile remains forever young and enigmatic in our memory.