Playing around photoshop

This was my first time I used photoshop, with the task to create a collage. With my enthusiasm, I created a portrait with this symmetrical and expressionless face as my 'blank canvas:'

and turned it into a multilayered portrait that features three other faces to replace certain features, creating a non-recognisable hybrid:

The original face that I began with was empty, the eyes cold the mouth giving away no feelings, so I sought it as my mission to transform that devoid-of-emotion canvas into something that spoke many different things to a viewer. Firstly, I turned the background layer into black and white, then adding the eyes and nose from an old man who, I thought, displayed empathy and weariness about the world.  The eyes are seen as the 'gateways to the soul,' so I decided to enhance the blueness, which can be associated with clarity, melancholy, as well as dreaming and calmness, which enhanced the emotions that I saw when I first looked at the image of the old man, and replacing the models void-like "soul." The mouth was taken from an image of another old man from a third world country, who is smiling despite his situation, which I thought contrasted greatly with the straight face of the background, who is a young woman from a first world country. I had the hope to spark some thought in the viewer, so I added the fiery red hair as a prompt to that, which also contributed to the absurdity of the mismatch face. The hand I decided not to turn black and white because I liked the idea that it could be owned by someone else, but that is open to interpretation, like the rest of the portrait: it is open to interpretation.