"I chose the title Speechless for this image, because it is as if she is very silent, and that perhaps she's forbidden to say what she really wants to say, but she has so much to say. And I felt the internal turmoil of this woman caught in between the emotions behind her, yet the need in believing in something is taking her somewhere else. And I find that ambiguity and that sense of paradox extremely powerful. So the words are written on her face as if these are the words that are just about to come out. But she's unable to open her mouth"