On why Hello Kitty doesn't have a mouth, Kitty's designer/illustrator, Yuko Yamaguchi, replied:
It's so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face....
The absence as a placeholder for imagination. As a way of letting the beholder fill in the gaps. To imagine/project the mood. To mirror the self.
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