welcome
to how I see the world
Hi, I’m Kate. I’m a writer, designer, artist and traveler. I see the world in different ways—through words, shapes and colors. Using various mediums helps me understand the people and places around me. It helps me discover what’s out there—and I hope it will help you too.
Take a look. Read an article. Check out a project. And learn about me and how I see the world.
Dearest Babe,
Letters from a WWII Flight Surgeon
My great grandfather, Dr. Joe W. King, wrote over 450 letters during his deployment during the second world war. My mom and I have compiled, transcribed, researched, verified, and connect each one of his letters into an epistolary memoir that gives a daily account of a WWII flight surgeon.
writing
My favorite thing about words is how small they are. They’re tiny. Just a few characters or keystrokes. But string a few together, and now you’ve really got something. Sentences build into actions. Paragraphs build into scenes. And then the bigger story starts to assemble.
Here are a few of my favorite articles that I’ve written. Published on various platforms, the little words work to report news, capture moments, prompt movements and highlight people whose stories are a lot larger than the words that tell them.
design
Sometimes understanding the world is a matter of asking a lot of questions and then trying to put the pieces together until you start to see some answers. It’s about testing a lot of options. Maybe you never find the answer you were looking for, but you learn a whole lot more during the search. That’s what design means to me. Whether it’s architectural design, construction research or graphic explorations, design is about looking for new ways to approach a problem or express a position.
architecture
research
graphic
craft
I’ve always thought that the action of creation was really a form of observation. We take in the world around us and look closer—look deeper—at the view, the object, the subject or the place. Making is really studying what makes something beautiful or unique or both. Here are a few things I’ve studied so far.
painting
carpentry
rendering
sketching
