If your piece was declined it was because it wasn't good enough and would drag all of the other pieces of art and their creators down. There is such a thing as incentive to get better, you don't get an A for effort here.
your pieces of art inspire me.Its all so real in ways I never saw art on this level before on this page,in a good way.You have a very special gift.Thank you for sharing some of your work here on this forum to us