There is an audience that buys art, and corporations that buy art. The artist is making a choice between selling and not selling. Although Budd's work seems to have a message, it is hard to pinpoint. Hers is not stridently political work. Still, the effect she attains is perhaps more powerful than any propaganda, because it pulls the viewer to think rather than simply accept.
Propaganda means giving suggestions about changing things.
I'm not informed enough to do that. I'm not a politician, I'm an artist. My work is like planting seeds and making people think. WFP Collective, Inc.