SATURDAY NIGHT CRAVINGS presents AN EPIK PROPORTION

Graffiti has always been innovating and about taking letters to new heights. With this large culture expanding, many concepts have been played with and rarely is there much more room for a "new" style or font. Artists are spraying their way to obscure styles and unusual type letters that try to set themselves apart from the rest. We've seen letters and colors recycled and mixed, but sometimes graff artists have the agenda of just throwing their name in the game for fame; even rocking simple letters several hundred times in their city is satisfying enough. We've seen that there are in fact particular styles associated with the way society and times are in different cities around the world. In New York for example, with its fast paced way of living and its long graff history, we can see many colorful throwups. In contrast lies the Los Angeles associated style of many hard rocked straights and more block-type fonts, and due to city structure, rollers, rollers, rollers.
Sprinkled through many cities though, are graff artists who will take to trains as if bombing a huge canvas. Freights (in most cases) are always a more relaxed and "chill" way of painting your name however you please, without city or freeway commotion. The ambience and setting of train yards keeps a perfect tone with artists to display their artistic freedom. Letters have possessed many characters and have taken many shapes, but none like the artist known as "EPIK" from crews: 63cents, ITD, and BMC.. Letters formed in literacy, a child can read, but what sets Epik apart from other simplistic letters is his amazing ability of sharing them with you as if they were people in life situations. Epik makes graffiti look fun and brings a different perspective to un-chartered limitations of rocking letters which the average person would never fathom. The imagination sometimes takes "characters" E P I and K to a Bar, a knockout in the ring, or battlefronts of wars remembered. Epik gives his letters a certain "concept" to engage in and can almost make them into a cartoon series. In some cases, his letters die, but EPIK continues to paint his way to bringing fresh life every time he steps up to a train. So keep an eye on this catch online, or follow him through your local train yard, because this artist has taken these concepts and rightfully honed them to where this type of style is well worth "jocking" and very "EPIK" indeed!
-TRISTAN P.-