Rejection is always hard to deal with especially when it comes with no feedback as it so often does in the art world. Is it me, my work, this particular image or my reason for creating that is being rejected.
Is it all just seen as rubbish. Do they think there is something I need to change? Would I want to change it if I knew.
But the main high comes from creating work that is boosted when others connect with it. To continue creating I have to sell work or sustain myself in other ways so I have to expose the work to the world and possible rejection.
While creating there are always moments of doubt. Rejection feeds the doubt and makes one question the the work and ones reason for creating. So rejection becomes part of the creative process by keeping the the question alive and the work honest. But, rejection still remains painful and hard to deal with.
