In Reply to: Sad news... Ashley Bickerton has passed posted by Behemoth on Wednesday, 7. December 2022 at 12:22 Bali Time:
earlier this year, he noted that since his diagnosis, his art has 'naturally [been] seen through the prism of my mortality—staring at the infinite. The work I'm doing now will probably be even more so. There's something sort of ghostly about it. I have no problem talking about it, but I don't want to be known or judged by this.'
But more than anything, what long motivated his art making was a desire to encapsulate every part of life. He said, 'I want to be able to address whatever the hell is going on in the world: a sour break-up, a beautiful vista, a tender moment, a yearning sentiment, or some political outrage sweeping the nation.'