Text: This is a print made from the center drawing of the Rejection Quintet, five works originally inspired by several experiences I had in Chicago: one with a male dealer, the other with a male collector, both of whom made me feel rejected and diminished as a woman. I decided to deal with my feelings of rejection and in so doing confronted the fact that I was still hiding the real subject matter of my art behind a geometric structure as I was afraid that if I revealed my true self, I would be rejected. In the first drawing I asked: "How does it feel to be rejected?" and answered: "It's like having your flower split open.: In the last drawing I asked: "How does it feel to expose your real identity?" and answered: "It's like opening your flower and no longer being afraid it will be rejected." In this, the transitional image, I "peeled back" the structure to reveal the formerly hidden form. What a relief to finally say: "Here I am, a woman, with a woman's body and a woman's point of view.