Katherine*

Based on the Sissy Spacek film, this diorama offers a view on American controversy and media-distance(s).

A historical profile of American cultural tides, inspired by Katherine (Sissy Spacek). Enjoy, 

DISCLAIMER: While this work in 'exploratory' American history/culture is meant to be dramatic, it does not offer any 'formal' claim regarding journalistic trends or legal records regarding actual events/persons/places/definition. 

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Katherine was an accomplished American woman of liberal means and intellectual bent and a passionate mind. She wanted to explore the world around her and invested in children's education, foreign aid, and eventually terrorism. Katherine joined the Weather Underground after college and was plotting an instrumental attack on an officers-event in Fort Dix when the bomb she laid out accidentally exploded, killing her. Before this untimely death, she'd made statements in the media regarding the value of modern activists in the West investing in forms of anti-imperial thought even in 'progressive' America, home of the free.

The role of radical politics and folk-populism in the West was a key theme in the counter-culture, and Katherine was a key 'diplomat' in this cultural movement in the United States. Katherine was labeled a heretic and 'a' dangerous woman' despite her roles in very spiritual activities prior to her becoming a member of the Weather Underground. There were forms of eco-radicalism in her time-period, but the Weather Underground was one of the more 'dangerous' groups out there, in the modern post-Industrialization United States. America kept reinventing herself, and maybe Katherine was an under-studied Anne Hutchinson.

The role of American journals is to espouse the nature of open discourse regarding the negotiations of citizenry-commentary on the value(s) of government and its operations in the living lives of everyday people and consumers. Maybe Katherine was a 'GI-Joe' of the evolving America, and maybe she'd be considered a natural heretic for her vital role as an incendiary, but the mark she left on the historic landscape of American journalism was one of liberalism and controversial free-speech media and eventually 'homegrown' terrorism. Was Katherine a heroine...or a witch? This is the type of question that serves as the 'signature' of the conversation(s) surrounding American diaries, and it's why we cast Katherine as a 'woman of means' and (arguably) not as a woman of inescapable distance(s).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes) 

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