Certainties in life; Death & Taxes. Growing old is a taboo subject in todays society. The young rule the world, or so they would have us believe. This portrait is a reflection upon mortality when meeting a Jimmy, a ninety year who is nearing life's end. He is riddled with cancer and lives in a Hospice. The image of the darkness that inhabits his soul forced me to interpret the utter despair the emanates from his being.