The photographic work To See Myself Alive by Andres de Varona depicts Marcia Reifman, who was ill with cancer and freed herself from the shadow cast on the light of life by this disease. A liberation with no winners. Human existence and the experiences associated with it, of suffering and mortal fear, healing and ordeal, become the object of de Varona’s motif. The way de Varona succeeds in symbolically realizing this theme is downright “breathtaking”. Everything about this motif draws us into the sunlit soil. Draws us into the psychic shoals that signify confrontation with death. Da Varona exhibits an extraordinary, both human and creative understanding for the directness and brutality of these existence-endangering life circumstances.