Working on such large dimensions takes time and bravery. “Your right and a lot of people would like for me to be a little bit richer and for me to work on small pieces because it’s more rewarding than a big piece which you work on for years. I like the idea of maximum effect for my paintings you see so sometimes I do huge panoramas.”
Serigo did not use the events of September 11th to cash in on selling his firemen portraits, a subject which he had been painting for years previously. Indeed it is not for monetary rewards that Serigo is involved in painting. “It’s a very tricky point to talk about it because I do not exclude the commercial side of art and I am very glad when I sell something, however I exclude the idea of making something which we know in advance from the quality point of view, from the ethical point of view, it’s not what we have to do, but we still do it in order to be able to sell it.”
Serigo gives art classes in the territory also but when a student of his “art survival classes”( a three month intensive course) gets accepted into an art college such as Parsons he refunds them the cost of his course.
