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Maggie Owsley
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Mis-Fitting is an on-going 35mm landscape photography project examining unlikely objects as interruptions within public environments. Found along roadsides, vacant lots, shorelines, and other transitional spaces, these objects occupy an uneasy position between belonging and removal simultaneously out of place, absorbed into the landscape, and transformed by it.
Drawing on the language of the misfit in queer and disability studies, the series considers who and what is permitted to belong within a given environment. The photographs resist the idea that fitting in is inherently desirable, revealing instead how landscapes are shaped by systems of use, access, value, and exclusion. Through careful attention to color, scale, texture, and composition, Mis-Fitting renders refuse as an active presence: a marker of human systems, a record of abandonment, and a site of unexpected relation. The project asks whether belonging requires assimilation, or whether it can emerge through difference, adaptation, and remaining visibly out of place.