Katherine’s work has a strong social justice narrative. Domestic violence, femicide, indigenous concerns, environmental sustainability and refugee struggles have been explored in her work. She believes that jewelry has a way of opening conversation about issues.

This brooch is a fully functioning book form, utilizing double needle Coptic binding. The use of x-rays as the pages, references the irony that we have the ability to see inside people’s physical bodies, but we have little that shows accurately how human beings feel, love, desire, or hope.