Norma Jean Artwork

My name is Jerome Santiago, I am of Puerto Rican decent. I was Born in Brooklyn New York and are a self taught multimedia digital artist. I grew up in a fairly challenging environment in New York's Chelsea Elliot Houses. It was and still is a contrast to it's surrounding neighborhood "wealthy Chelsea" as I called it, my inspiration to "get out of the hood" was the peace needed to focus to create and symbol that floated outside my window at distance, the Empire State Building, it was like a dingy in the ocean of challenges around me, both inspiring and intimidating simultaneously. I freelance as a 3D Branded Environments Designer. Its a pretty big jump from my origins, guess what? I am still jumping. Today, like so many yesterdays, I am still learning my craft albeit on more complex levels, fine tuning my skills. My blessing and curse to be in state of perpetual learning, it is how I grow as an artist.