Kilgallen died in 2001 of breast cancer three weeks after the birth of Asha, her daughter. She had to choose between treating the cancer or keeping her baby.
Kilgallen's paintings and murals emulate old hand-painted signs with heavy and bold hand drawn typography.
"I like things that are handmade and I like to see people's hand in the world, anywhere in the world; it doesn't matter to me where it is. And in my own work, I do everything by hand. I don't project or use anything mechanical, because even though I do spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work and my hand, my hand will always be imperfect because it's human. And I think it's the part that's off that's interesting, that even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line and trying to make it straight, I'll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is."
-MK
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