Insulin syringes art sculpture Diabetes

Diabetes is a sculpture made from about 900 used insulin syringes, created in 2015–2017.

When I was diagnosed with diabetes myself, I immediately noticed the colourful syringes, and from the very first one I started keeping them, thinking I would one day make something out of them. A few years later I presented the idea to the doctors of the endocrinology department at Kaunas Clinics and at Santaros Clinics in Vilnius. They became the first carriers of the message: they told their patients about the work, and people living with diabetes collected syringes for me. I wanted to show what a person endures living with this disease.

The sculpture was exhibited at the International Diabetes Federation congress in Abu Dhabi.