How do I upload an image from another directory of my project on web site with Selenium - Python?

I need to upload an image on web site, and I wanna store the image in my project in a separate directory "image", so everyone can run my test and upload image with no path issues.

here's html code of uploading form:

<form id="imageUploadForm" class="ant-form ant-form-horizontal image-upload-form">
<div class="ant-row ant-form-item">
<div class="ant-col ant-form-item-label ant-col-xs-24 ant-col-sm-4">
<label class="" title="Image list">Image list</label>
</div>
<div class="ant-col ant-form-item-control-wrapper ant-col-xs-24 ant-col-sm-16">
<div class="ant-form-item-control">
<span class="ant-form-item-children">
<div class="images-list">
<div class="images-list__upload-btn">
<span class="">
<div class="ant-upload ant-upload-select ant-upload-select-text">
<span tabindex="0" class="ant-upload" role="button">
<input id="image" type="file" accept="" style="display: none;">
<button type="button" class="ant-btn image-upload__btn">
<i aria-label="icon: plus" class="anticon anticon-plus">
<svg viewBox="64 64 896 896" class="" data-icon="plus" width="1em" height="1em" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">

as for uploading form : there's no input field on a site, u can choose a file only via a system window.

here's my code:

import os

image_upload = wd.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='imageUploadForm']/div[1]/div[2]/div/span/div/div[1]/span/div")

// tap on a button which opens a system window
 image_upload.click()

//trying to send path to a file which stored in my project
image_upload.send_keys(os.getcwd().replace("fixture", "") + "images/variant_1.png")

obviously, does not work. Also read smth about interaction with "input file", but didn't get how to apply.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!