“It Doesn’t Have to Make Sense”

12” x 12”, mixed media on canvas

Acrylic, spray paint, charcoal, ripped paper collage, and torn canvas.

It Doesn’t Have to Make Sense is a small but powerful declaration of surrender. Built intuitively on a 12 by 12 inch canvas, it combines layers of acrylic, spray paint, charcoal, torn paper, and even ripped-up fragments of canvas itself—each element adding to a raw, textured surface that reflects inner fragmentation.

This piece was born in a moment of emotional digestion—while processing confusion, grappling with questions that refused answers, and sitting in the discomfort of not knowing. The title came to me as a quiet but firm realization: that it is okay to not have everything figured out. I do not need to fix, explain, or understand it all.

Through the chaos of marks and materials, the work becomes a visual mantra of acceptance. It resists tidy conclusions and instead leans into the mess—the unknown, the unresolved, the perfectly imperfect. It Doesn’t Have to Make Sense is both a personal truth and an open invitation to let go of the need for everything to have an answer.