UNTITLED – a visual research on living with diabetes

ongoing

I was almost eight years old when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. From that moment, my life, and my family’s, became structured around its management: strict routines, controlled diet, injections, movement. I felt different from my peers, both hyper-visible and invisible at the same time. At eleven, I encountered a different approach. At Texas Children’s Hospital, I learned not only how to manage insulin based on food and glucose, but how to reclaim a sense of freedom. Diabetes became a quiet, constant presence, mechanical, invisible, yet deeply formative. For years, I avoided its psychological weight. I learned to look outward, to escape myself, shaped by the feeling of being observed and judged in everyday gestures. Now, I turn the lens inward. This ongoing body of work marks the beginning of a personal visual research: unfinished, unpolished, and spontaneous. An attempt to release control, and to reveal both what is visible and what remains beneath the surface, expanding on how diabetes can be seen, felt, and understood.