Gitary works principally in charcoal and paper, materials she regards with deliberate intention. Charcoal, which she describes as "the oldest drawing tool", and the unadorned surface of paper, with its qualities of clarity, contrast, and fragility, function for the artist as both medium and mirror, registering an interior landscape that resists ornament. The economic precariousness of independent artistic life has shaped, rather than diminished, her commitment to a solitary mode of working.

For Gitary, the act of making is a means of inhabiting solitude while "arranging the puzzles of life", an ongoing reconciliation with a world she experiences as fundamentally imperfect. She frames her practice as an "endless search", and a vocation closer to lifelong partnership than profession.