You don’t owe everyone an explanation of your art. Let some people wonder.

Explaining a piece to everyone who asks slowly converts it into an argument you have to win. Some of that pressure is friendly, and it still flattens the work, because anything you can defend in one sentence tends to become one sentence. Mystery is not a trick. It is room left for someone else to bring their own life into what you made.

Next time someone asks what it means, try saying you are still finding out. Notice who relaxes and who keeps pushing. You can let people in who genuinely want in, and leave the rest wondering.