
Cousteau Totem (Jacques and his Pudenda)
A towering, fetishistic assemblage of oceanic and industrial iconography, this work pays irreverent homage to the legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau through Bickerton's signature fusion of pop culture, consumerism, and primal symbolism. The totem form stacks layered references to marine exploration and bodily desire, collapsing the heroic and the vulgar into a single provocative monument. True to Bickerton's Neo-Geo sensibility, the piece interrogates how mythology, masculinity, and commodification become intertwined in the construction of cultural icons.
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Under the Influence
December 10, 2014
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