older beginnings, newer endings airbrushing our former selves reconfigured shadows painted in our likeness, perverse substitutes for who we once were inside
with each subtle layering, we forge expectations of unreality patterning behavior to society's desires, but what of the integrity that underlies the gross insincerity
do we fabricate perpetual lies to belie ourselves and so assume the carnivalesque expression, the idealized deception of what we classify as real or do we rupture the glass mosaic recapture the marred face beneath, the beauty behind our beast
A pentimento, in painting, is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over".