'Impervious' examines themes of fragility, transience, and the brevity of life. This series borrows from the 17th-century Dutch still-life painting of memento mori, an artistic genre and Latin phrase meaning “remember you must die.” The 19th-century Victorian tradition of flower pressing is also an ongoing influence, which acts as a metaphor for the impermanence of existence despite human efforts to resist this inevitability. In this work, photography is used in a similar way; a hopeful but futile attempt to freeze a “slice” of time. In contrast to the conventional quick snapshot–taken in a fraction of a second – each image in this series, comprised largely of discarded organic materials, consists of a 20 minute exposure, each subject painted with the light of multiple flashlights. Here, the isolated subject is dislocated from its context by a dark field, creating ambiguity around the specificity of time and space.