Work samples
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Cave Painting ICave Painting I and accompanying visual poem parenthesis are mixed media portraits of grief, illness, desire, and survival— from which bodily reality is unraveled, then clarified into a deeper embodiment of surrender and co-creativity (living) again and again. Like a sequin, the imagined line between sparkle and stasis, ecstasy and abjection, algorithm and nature— dissolves under shifting light.
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parenthesisrisograph prints of a poem composed by the artist in the shape of their right index finger print. The border features a pattern created by scanned clumps of their hair. The image on the left features black text on a white background with a red-tinted border and the image on the right features the inverse, though modified; red text on a white background with a pulsing red hue in the middle of the poem, mimicking blood or blush. A black border surrounds the image.
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sick portrait I
Originally published in the New River Journal of Electronic and Digital Literature Fall 2025, sick portrait I builds a meditative, collapsing narrative around bed-bound illness and explores the warped, isolated, and often frozen or fast-flowing temporality of queer disabled life. The bed becomes an ocean of grief and guilt as the subject tries to ground themselves one more time in their own deserving and resilience.
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biohack (science is not enough)tbd
About Lohitha
Lohitha Kethu, MA, CMI (they/them) is a multimedia visual/ medical artist and writer. Lohitha has created award-winning art for publication and exhibition and has been featured in Women’s Studies Quarterly, The New River Journal of Electronic and Digital Literature, and more.
Their studio art practice explores the bodymind as sacred "techno-craft"—encoded as a multidimensional microcosm of desires, offerings, and connections. In the disabled and gender-variant bodymind,… more
Drawings
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Funeral pyre -
seeding -
In dreams; consummation and escape -
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charms I -
Time As a Necklace IV -
Time As a Necklace III -
DIY tracheotomy
Mixed media/ digital paintings
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K!ll fantasytbd
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Freak city -
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Protection -
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Not Enough Anasthesia In the World -
Altar Ego
Visual poetry
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diction -
slow rendertbd
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sick portrait I
Originally published in the New River Journal of Electronic and Digital Literature Fall 2025, sick portrait I builds a meditative, collapsing narrative around bed-bound illness and explores the warped, isolated, and often frozen or fast-flowing temporality of queer disabled life. The bed becomes an ocean of grief and guilt as the subject tries to ground themselves one more time in their own deserving and resilience.
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parenthesis i
Mixed media
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Cave Painting I
Cave Painting I and accompanying visual poem parenthesis are mixed media portraits of grief, illness, desire, and survival— from which bodily reality is unraveled, then clarified into a deeper embodiment of surrender and co-creativity (living) again and again. Like a sequin, the imagined line between sparkle and stasis, ecstasy and abjection, algorithm and nature— dissolves under shifting light.
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parenthesis
risograph prints of a poem composed by the artist in the shape of their right index finger print. The border features a pattern created by scanned clumps of their hair. The image on the left features black text on a white background with a red-tinted border and the image on the right features the inverse, though modified; red text on a white background with a pulsing red hue in the middle of the poem, mimicking blood or blush. A black border surrounds the image.
