Grief and healing are important themes in her work. When Katina Bitsicas’s father was dying of cancer, she recorded his feelings and impressions. Then after he died, she created a liquid light image of the type of cancer cells that ran through his body. Bitsicas also has compiled a book, Luci: The Girl with Four Hearts, about a young woman who underwent three separate heart transplants by the age of 32. Bitsicas is an associate professor in IU’s Media School.

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