"Life is like a row boat, you're facing backwards. You can see where you've been, but not where you're going. But what if it was the other way around? What if we could see where we were going, and where we would end? What if our memory, our colors, slowly faded away?"

Created for the What's In a Word? contest, hosted by ruietto.

The word I was given was avenoir, which means "the desire that memory could flow backwards."

The right side of the skin symbolizes our memories and our colors. The left side of the skin symbolizes what would happen if memory flowed backwards. Our memories and colors would fade.