Janice Hathaway
Earthly Navigator
2022
Earthly Navigator represents yang energy through the creation of a grand design informed by flowing energy balancing yin water, flowers, and jewels above — life and world balance. Unlike in Lunar Invocation unconscious transformations, male hands hold the scientific instruments symbolizing the reasoning endeavors made by man on earth as personified Terra during the age of enlightenment.
Eleven photographs were digitally cut, blended, warped, and painted including a male figure holding a scroll from the National Museum of Scotland, a ruby and pearl broach and golden rings from a clock from the Victoria and Albert Museum, a portal cover from The Mariner’s Museum in Rotterdam, flowers from Biltmore Estate, water from the Chattanooga Aquarium, a sky from The Netherlands, a receding series of mountains from Scotland, rock outcroppings with a waterfall also from Scotland, an antique map and a NASA view of earth.