She would prefer her models to sit for her-- to enable a study of nuances; fine lines, curve of the neck, fall of the hair, jawline; and most importantly—the expression.
She worked on dead bodies to learn how the facial features behaved under the skin—the bones and muscles. Katt never allowed her models to sit still—she would help them talk, to observe.
Her famous bronze sculptures of Ram Kinker Baij and Bendre—are not good-looking faces; they arrest the eye with their condensed character—as though each muscle, vein and sinew is about to move.
Translating the defining expression of the organic form in bronze, stone or other metals with perfect detailing in a natural way became her leitmotif. It lent her bronze profiles an element of timelessness.