When an artist draws a brick in the center of a sketchpad, the viewer will put attributes on it like desegregating walls or breaking boundaries. There will be viewers who wonder if the image is personal or connect things based on symbolic references. When I make things, I do not always relate it to me. I relate it to a designated audience. I do not represent myself with my art unless I want to. If an artist wants to draw an orange let them draw an orange. If an artist wants to draw a diabolical monster, let them draw a diabolical monster.
The problem with viewership in a modern-day setting is we relate things to the artist more than we should. I could draw a piece of shit tomorrow and someone may say “ maybe he is having a shitty day.” Meanwhile I may have done it because I wanted to. I may like details of objects. I may like the idea of organization or how objects relate to people. If it only relates to me it is not worth making in my opinion as art is a form of communication that I believe relays more on how viewership thinks of individual pieces or projects .
Artists' work can and will continue to represent the audiences own beliefs and opinions, but the idea of mass external branding should not be a wide spread reasoning and mass interpreted view unless the artist designates it by title or by relations in the image itself. Images are very personal to each viewer and stripping away that personal status with a viewer is something that way too much art has happen in the modern day setting. It is what the audience connects to in the artwork themselves that make the art worth making at the end of the day. Artists do put their experiences of life into art, but art is very much a two way communication step, and it is discouraging when you can't get an audiences viewpoints because of viewpoints created externally by public groups or even public figures. This problem is at this point unsolvable, because of how tied we are to public agenda, but you don't have to like it and you can push away from it and remind people a brick is a brick and what that brick is from is subjectively yours to interoperate.
