Dinithi is a Queer, Sri Lankan born artist and maker, living and working on Wurundjeri Land of the Kulin Nation. Dinithi spent the first six years of their childhood growing up among the coconut trees, rice paddies and waterfalls of their homeland. The natural beauty of their country starkly contrasted with the climate of state sanctioned violence and rigid patriarchal and heteronormative values that held their motherland in a python's embrace.  Despite emigrating to so-called Australia at the age of six, Dinithi’s heart remains haunted by the red earth of their homeland and its ghosts. Their artistic practice is an act of dreaming; of looking within the wreckage left by imperialism, climate collapse and colonial devastation to find the remnants of strength and hope that glimmer in its midst, and carry them through to the future. Drawing from folktales, archaeological site analysis, and the visions of animal spirits that they have encountered throughout their life, Dinithi creates a mythic world that embraces the grief of diasporic yearning; knowing that on the other side of grief, love awaits.