Janice Hathaway
Blissful Embrace
2023
Blissful Embrace was featured in The Room, an Egyptian surrealist publication with a theme of eroticism. Blissful Embrace represents desire and convulsive beauty – a theme central to the surrealist movement. Blissful Embrace, flips the early surrealist male gaze to a female interpretation of an erotic womanly figure representing the lushness of life – the opposite of the male centric object of desire. Three photographs were digitally cut, blended, warped, and painted including a female figure, a flower and a sky.
Janice Hathaway invented and developed the transmorgraphy process over the past several decades. Hathaway transforms her photographs using Photoshop to digitally cut, blend, warp, paint, and incorporate numerous adjustment layers to achieve a unified space.