Misalignment (with Self) uses the photograph to explore new modes of self-relating. Using photography as a means to visually stabilize the encounter between myself and my clay body parts—made molded upon my body—these photos are engage in a productive mis-alignment of the self, both physically and conceptually. Inspired by watching another interact with my body parts (See: Misalignment (with Other)) I approach my body with a new curiosity and forgiveness, a forgiveness for what I formerly viewed as a body that is in constant conflict and must turn against itself. “Misalignment” is an attempt to de-valorize the rigid conception of self and body that tells us we must strive towards visual and theoretical alignment or engage in perpetual self-agreement. These photographs offer an acceptance of living comfortably as a body that is inherently misaligned and also propose a degree of agency that can be gained through this acceptance. Unlike the violent anagrammatic bodies of Hans Bellmer's dolls, for example, these bodily rearrangements and misalignments convey the potential agency of women to define the roles of their various body parts in both reality and images.