Micky's Room Ideas

I made a diorama with images of Mick. Cutting them out and standing them up. I used shallow depth of field and lighting to create a mood and trying to making sure they dont look like collages. This is all experimenting.
I was interested how the cropping and placement of the image made it look so incomplete.  I was aware that cropping by framing a subject does not give this effect. The viewer assumes there is more body to be seen but it is just not in the frame. We are familiar with the conventions of cropping but only by the frame of the camera.

See the example below