Definitely. People often need to associate any two things they can find to “paint a picture” of things they don’t know. I’ve found the best way to combat this is to be as random in what I make as who I am. That’s not an explicit effort to make random things, I’m just skipping the thing everyone teaches you in art school: be consistent in the imagery you make. I think that’s bullshitty, we should make whatever we want to, and not be required to “brand” it so as to set a uniform mood or tone.

I have creepy and morbid pieces, immature and juvenile ones, regal and sophisticated, geeky, conceptual, cute, funny, serious, sarcastic, ugly, pretty, and a million other descriptors because I feel, think, or am all of those things. If people see one and it rubs them the wrong way, I completely understand, I can’t make art that is universally loved. However, I CAN make things that hit on many different parts of who I am and how I view things. Strangers familiar with the wide body of my work know me better than most people in-person who actually do. People are multi-dimensional, I don’t think we should repress certain sides of who we are just to brand ourselves — even if it makes some people slink away.