Created out of deep personal affection and great emotional pain, this is a powerful and moving photographic essay on illness and death. Its intense but sensitive images touch on the questions of how we deal with suffering, dying, and grief, while also evoking images of life, warmth, and love. The artist's daughter was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor at the age of five; the portraits capture her remarkable dignity during the final months of her young life, never exploiting her suffering -- even in close-up pictures a respectful, private distance is kept, portraying her maturity and charisma even as her physical strength weakens. These are complemented by photos of abstract landscapes that visualize a changing perception of reality accompanying a loss of the senses.