Painter and Illustrator Kristin Pluhacek doesn’t invent; she observes. “[She] look[s] for a strong subject, something that maintains its presence while allowing for elaboration and whimsy. Most of these things are already present in [her] life, existing in simple, ordinary ways until one day they exude a sort of grandness. They become monumental in nature, and [she] want[s] to experience and share that nature in the act of interpretation.
