"Rejected DMs" is a visual archive of rejection, resilience, and artistic defiance. Over the years, I reached out to collectors with hope—only to be met with silence, polite declines, or indifferent dismissals. These 8 glitch-based digital artworks are screenshots of real DMs I received, transformed into raw, looping GIFs that capture the emotional distortion of rejection. This isn’t about bitterness. It’s about acknowledgment. Each piece is a timestamped scar from my journey—frozen moments of being unseen, misunderstood, or passed over. But instead of deleting them, I preserved them. Rejection became texture. Silence became art. Minted as 1/1s, these works mark both the weight of what was lost—and the power of what I’ve become because of it. This collection isn’t just about who said no. It’s about why I kept going. - Neru