ABOUT CROM:

I HAVE BEEN INTO ART MY WHOLE LIFE. I REMEMBER BACK WHEN I WAS A CHILD, WHEN MY MOTHER, BOUGHT ME MY FIRST TRACING PAD AND COLORING BOOK. I HAVE TO ADMIT....FROM THAT POINT ON, I WAS HOOKED ON ART!

AS I GREW OLDER, MY LOVE FOR ART BECAME MORE SERIOUS THAN EVER. I KNEW I WANTED TO CREATE ART FOR ALL TO SEE AS MY PROFESSION. DURING MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, I GOT INTRODUCED TO THE ART FORM KNOWN AS GRAFFITI.

GRAFFITI ART HAS REALLY HELPED ME TO DEVELOP INTO THE ARTIST THAT I AM TODAY. IN THE BEGINNING, I STOLE (BITE ONE'S STYLE) BITS AND PIECES FROM ARTISTS, FOR WHOM, I ADMIRED FOR ONE RESASON OR ANOTHER. I THEN USED WHAT I HAVE LEARNED TO DEVELOP MY OWN STYLE. ONE CAN DEFINTELY TELL BY LOOKING AT MY WORK, THAT THERE IS A HEAVY INFLUENCE OF GRAFFITI THAT REVOLVES THROUGHOUT MY PIECES.

MY LIFE HAS MANY TWISTS AND TURNS...A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK, I ALMOST SERVED PRISON TIME DUE TO THE DEDICATION TO GET UP THROUGH MY ART! I GOT CHARGED WITH 60 FELONY COUNTS OF CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND WAS FACED WITH DOING A 3 YEAR PRISON TERM.
INSTEAD, I GOT OFF WITH A $7,500 FINE, 3 YEARS PROBATION, 6 MONTHS COMMUNITY SERVICE AND FELONY CHARGES WERE REDUCED TO MISDERMEANOR OFFENSES.

NOW...FAST FORWARD TO THE PRESENT...I AM TRYING A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO GETTING UP THROUGH MY ART! I USED ALL WHAT I HAVE LEARNED IN THE GRAF CULTURE AND CONVERTED ALL OF THAT INTO STYLIZED DIGITAL GRAFFITI ILLUSTRATIONS! DAY IN AND DAY OUT, I AM STEADILY TRYING TO PUSH MY ART SO THAT EVERYONE CAN SEE IT. HOPEFULLY, I CAN MAKE A REAL LIVING OUT OF MY ART. I HAVE VARIOUS PROJECTS IN THE WORKS...BE ON THE LOOKOUT!!!
SO...THIS IS A BRIEF RUNDOWN, OF WHERE I HAVE BEEN IN MY LIFE, AND WHERE I AM GOING. CHECK OUT MY ART! HOPEFULLY, YOU WILL SEE WHERE I AM TRYING TO GO WITH IT. MAYBE, YOU WILL FEEL THE BEAUTY AND PHRESHNESS IN MY WORK AS I DO!

-CROM DIGGAH 2008

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