Kae (they/she, @kae.loah.tattoos) is a founder of Catalpa Studio and an interdisciplinary artist who has spent the last 8 years translating her art practice onto human skin. Their background in woodwork helped spark a love for attention to detail, process-oriented media and machines. She sees tattooing as a practice that is situated at the intersection of art and care work, and approaches interactions with clients through a trauma-informed lens. Using a fine-line work that depicts medicinal plants, animals, objects, abstraction and queer erotics, they aspire to bring beauty and joy to every body they work with. They have nine fingers.