*hidden space
*your imagination
*romantic connotations
*mystery
*symbolism
"You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. The surface is all you've got. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is to manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly. Pushing it to extremes and shattering the form by turning the volume up to a scream" - Richard Avedon