importing images in my pygame project without that C:/users.... stuff

Question

import pygame, sys
pygame.init()
image = pygame.image.load("C:\users\USER\Desktop\project\image.png")

how do I left out the C:\users\USER\Desktop and just start with the project folder?

while True:
for evt in pygame.event.get():
   if evt.type == pygame.QUIT:
      pygame.quit()
      sys.exit()