Art came to me late in my life. I would have never chose it, but it seemed to fall into my lap.

Rather I realized it or not the center of paintings is a realization of the saturation in my mind. I am an over thinker. My thoughts tend to saturate my life and I find myself lost in them. When painting I try and wrestle with these thoughts. They speak on the ideas of what it is to be a human. Some ideas that I wish to embody and other ideas not so much. I relate my paintings to being human and decisions we try to make about ourselves that are inevitably wrong.

In my sculptures they do in a sense represent a saturation of thought, but truly they mean something entirely different from my paintings. When I love someone, I am doing so knowing that one day I will also grieve them. This may be through death, through break up, or through some other way. Either way I will eventually lose most people, or they will lose me. For death has no bounds, no limits. It does not discriminate or hesitate. It is the inevitable part of life that connects all humans. When I was just ten years old my father grew ill. The next five years I would spend tending to his declining health until he finally passed away. He was not old. It did not happen quickly or painlessly, and he had not lived a long and happy life. It is not so much the lose of my father that pains me but really the latter of these sentences. It is this lack of comfort that gave birth to my sculptures. I build their bones from wire and newspaper. I paint their skin on with paper mache clay. I make them to represent a human, but in reality, they represent the hardly human. Their skin is rough, and they often scratch me as I handle them. As if to remind me that they represent a part of me that I have lost in grief. They try to remain human through the mass of clay I put on them, but truly its through the crushing weight of grief I have laid on them. My sculptures live in a place that is quiet, coarse, and always present. They live in the same place my heart lives, but at least now she has company.

BIO

Erin Serrano is a painter and sculptor whose work represents the over saturation of thought and the ideas of grief. Mostly an exploring and young artist Erin has still made several commissions of businesses and people. Studying the arts at Texas State University from 2017-2021.