Janice Hathaway
Lady of Sensual Ecstasy
2021
Lady of Sensual Ecstasy, was made for the surrealist Canadian publication The Oystercatcher 2021.
The eroticism of the work represents desire and convulsive beauty – a theme central to the surrealist movement. Lady of Sensual Ecstasy, flips the early surrealist male gaze to a female interpretation of an erotic womanly figure representing the lushness of life – the opposite of the meaningless object of desire. Four photographs were digitally cut, blended, warped, and painted including the figure and a plumeria flower. Numerous pieces of a plumeria petal were wrapped around the body resulting in a document with hundreds of Photoshop layers.