a puppet's tale

Puppets can't change their facial expression; they're made this or that way for all eternity. Maybe that's what make puppets special: they must be that which they are and cannot be anything else. You can change their clothes, pretty clothes, ugly clothes, party clothes and so on, but you'll never make the puppet in the picture happy. She is the incarnation of melancholy, and she will be just that till she is burned on a pile of waste. Maybe she is allready destroyed and the picture is all that's left of her... I think she is pretty, because you see (or get the impression) that she has tasted life. It's like she has lived more than the average human being.