Apr 9 2021 - Apr 9 2021

Diane

Date
  • Apr 9 2021 - Apr 9 2021

Location

I am willing to be open
I am trusting in myself and where my thoughts may go
I am starting to believe in myself and my abilities and self-worth
I am stronger than I think
I am more than HIV and meetings
I am here if people need me
I am going to take more time for me
I am going to learn to say no, or
I am going to have a voice
I am going to spoil myself
I am going to wash the paint off my hands

Nor Perfect Just Me

“I’m a dinosaur, diagnosed March 1986. So being one of the very first women living with HIV – not only in Western Australia, but in Australia – it was very difficult to cope with that at the beginning… I work in harm reduction and I have a real passion for the work that I do there… Sadly, I don’t have any children because back when I was diagnosed, we were told not have children. And you were made to feel very guilty if you chose to have them. A hysterectomy was the other thing that they did as well… I work part-time and what I’m finding more difficult – more than anything at the moment – is diabetes, which I know a few other people are in the same boat. So that’s what my issue is, more than HIV at the moment.”

Gallery

Not Perfect Just Me

Photographs and Symbols

Colour Experiments

Diane vs Alexander Oreshnikovs

Emotion Colour

First Self-Portrait

My Photo with ViiV Poster

Symbols

Photographs

Grim Reaper Dig Deeper

Grim Reaper Re-Worked

Ideas

Self Portrait