Her paternal grandparents lived in Shanghai and childhood exposure to both traditional Chinese and Japanese art had a significant influence on her visual sensibility and artistic development.
Her formative sculptures made from steel, aluminum, and other malleable materials, resemble shapes and forms that evoke armor, such as breastplates, chastity belts, and medieval codpieces.
[13] Soul Junk (2013 - 2019) is a twenty-eight minute, three-channel video and sound installation, presenting a female stream of conscious narrative juxtaposing personal trauma with observations about abuses of power throughout society.
[15] In 2022, Jaffé, along with Phil Edelstein and David Reeder began working series of projects that share interests in composing, the physical and dimensional properties of sound, and software.
She has been selected for the Fiscal Sponsorship program through the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2008 for her project Wappen Field, in 2013 with her work Neural,[1] in 2020 for Murmur/Mutter/Yell, and again in 2023 for her work-in-progress titled GRIFTER’s Gambit.