In his teenage years, he became interested in the writings of Jack Kerouac and the artwork of Von Dutch, a prominent custom car designer, gunsmith and explosives specialist.
[4] Subjects for his ceramics have included the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria, Hindu deities, historical murders, and the explosion of the Hindenburg, among many others.
[1] Since 1991, Krafft's work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and Europe, and has been published in magazines including Harper's, Artforum, and The New Yorker.
[1] In 1995, Krafft received a grant jointly from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Citizens Exchange Council, and the Soros Foundation to accompany the Slovenian band Laibach and its associated arts collective, Neue Slowenische Kunst, on their "Occupied Europe: NATO" tour in Yugoslavia, where the Bosnian War was just ending.
[5] He was appointed the tour's official photographer, and was present for their historic concert in Sarajevo in December 1995, when the city was still under siege by the Serbs.
[8] In February 2013, an article was published in the alternative newsweekly The Stranger which detailed Krafft's participation on white nationalist Web sites, and his Holocaust denial.
Some, such as Adam Parfrey of Feral House, came to his defense,[10] while The Globe and Mail in Toronto claimed that Krafft's personal beliefs should not be allowed to affect perceptions of his art.