Click here to watch a video of Kate Sky Dive on her 24th Birthday in Santa Barbara, CA. Thanks Marlene for getting the video.

Click here to see a photo gallery of Katja which includes images from Shelter Cove, her artwork, as well as many other images to come.

You can upload your images of Kate, and her art for everyone to see. Order some prints etc. Check out the gallery to see how.

Click here to read and add testimonials
on a weblog page dedicated to Kate.

"...and when I die, it will be because life was too big to swallow, and too beautiful to spit out."
-Katja

  Katja died tragically on August 3rd while in Cincinnati, Ohio visiting her father who was recovering from surgery.

  She touched many lives, and had a passion for art seldom seen in someone so young. By age 24, she had seen most of the country, gained respect as a successful painter, and experienced more than most can in a lifetime. Kate's passionate life also included a love for poetry, music, sculpture, and photography. She lived her whole life aspiring to be like her mother, and lived with a fierce love and loyalty to her family and her friends.

  A fearless woman, an old soul, an adventurous personality, and a strong heart... we will miss her always, and she will be in our hearts forever.

      upon my death arriving i leaving
we all say prayers of farewell hoping
i will journey on with all of you inside of me
my body
this body  shes been good to me like my jupiter medium and
i could love and could touch
and we did feel everything like the unexplainable storms
so take this and burn it to a small box of ash in latvian wood
and the price they pay for me
put in your pocket and fly away to my home
send me to the water where i will find her
stay or leave
i will always feel each moment and movement we have had
never forget love
      kate

"This is the last will, do right by me"

And so we would have it no other way than how she would have wanted it. Kate's ashes were brought to the ocean in a Latvian box that belonged to her mother, and scattered into the sea at sunset on August 13th, 2004 at Shelter Cove in Shell Beach, California.