Diabetes Art Day 2013
Diabetes Art Day is a web-based initiative for the Diabetes Online Community to “tell a story” about life with diabetes though creative visual expression.”
Diabetes make its way into my dreams every now and again, especially when my blood glucose drops or is dropping while I sleep. These pictures are a recreation of some of my recent dreams or diabetes nightmares as I call them.
The photos above are from a dream in which my fingers were leaking blood from being overused. In my dream, I sat helpless watching each finger bleed, then my test strips marched towards the blood as if they were magnets being pulled towards each other.
This photo below is a scene from a dream where my late maternal grandmother took me into a lab where a cure is being worked on.
Today February 4th 2013 is the forth-annual Diabetes Art Day. To participate, make a piece of art that reflects something about your life with diabetes and share it.
Find out all about it and take a look at all the submissions at the Diabetes Art Day website.
Wow…. !!!
that second picture is just phenomenal! what a creative idea and so perfectly timed!
crazy!
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Scully
4 Feb 13 at 6:23 AM
Wow! What an incredibly vivid piece of art. Reading about that dream and seeing the hand makes me shudder just thinking about it… Thanks so much for sharing such a great piece!
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Mike Hoskins
4 Feb 13 at 6:55 AM
i seem to have weird dreams when my BG is dropping in the middle of the night too. I never remember clearly what was going on but there is a residue of fear when i wake. I love your photo’s. They depict the dreams you mention so vividly.
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kim
4 Feb 13 at 7:03 AM
Thanks @Scully
Adjoa Pearlsa
4 Feb 13 at 8:22 AM
@Mike my night time lows leads to strange vivid dreams. Thanks
Adjoa Pearlsa
4 Feb 13 at 8:25 AM
@Kim thanks
Adjoa Pearlsa
4 Feb 13 at 8:26 AM
These are very creative!! The last one has a nice, comfortable look to it with all the colors – despite the fact that it depicts everything we’ve grown to resent over the years…
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Scott E
4 Feb 13 at 12:26 PM
Thank you @Scott
Adjoa Pearlsa
4 Feb 13 at 12:47 PM
These are fascinating, Pearlsa!
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4 Feb 13 at 4:23 PM
Thank you @Scott
Adjoa Pearlsa
4 Feb 13 at 4:40 PM