My self-portrait disrupts notions of female self-portraiture, beauty, and traditional printmaking. I have mixed solar-plate etching, screen-printing, digital print, sewing, and collage to create a work that expresses my femaleness as dynamic, strong, abject, and beautiful. My orifices are open and one eye stares at the viewer – both of which have previously been taboo in the history of female self-portraiture. Initially, my deformed face fights with the beauty of Sandro Botticelli’s graces; however, after a while my work seems oddly beautiful – disrupting traditional ideas of beauty.