Divine Feminine
A pen portrait series born from love and healing - my first artworks after a four-year pause from creating, inspired by my love language of reminding the women in my life of their power and beauty as goddesses in perpetual evolution.
Portrait Timeline
Five portraits of divine feminine power
Michelle Wang • 王雪莉
The Ethereal
My lifelong best friend Michelle, captured in the ethereal energy I see radiating from her soul - a reminder of the goddess she has always been.
Ashira & Rebecca • רבקה ואשירה
The Healers
My college best friend Ashira with her mother Rebecca, captured on the eclipse of April 11, 2024 - the day Ashira became a Fulbright scholar.
Sahiba • साहिबा
The Resilient Light
My college best friend Sahiba, laughing in 2021 during freshman year - she was my rock during my darkest mental and physical moments.
Malak Abuhashim • ملاك أبو هاشم
The Revolutionary Sun
A fellow activist, mentor, and older sister figure whose resilience and cultural strength have deeply inspired my own growth.
Yasmin • یاسمین
The Rising Phoenix
My high school best friend Yasmin, who I've watched rise and shine again and again through her darkest moments - this is how I will always see her.
Sierra
The Musical Soul
My college best friend Sierra - "She is still inside me, I carry her with me wherever I go." A portrait celebrating her artwork and musical soul.
Anastasiya • Анастасія
The Keeper of Stories
My high school best friend and lifetime companion - a reminder of her ethereal light and the guardians always protecting her family.
Mariama • مريامة
The Scholar
Brilliant scholar with Fulani heritage - I took this photo while doing her makeup for graduation photos, she didn't know what she was posing for.
Sokhnadiarra
The River of Abundance
A photo she had chosen herself, not knowing what it was for - embodying the abundance that flows through her spirit.
Returning to Art Through Love
"Divine Feminine" was born from the intersection of healing and love. After four years away from art - dealing with deep chronic pain, spiritual, physical, and emotional struggles - I knew that when I returned to creating, my first works had to be offerings of love.
My love language has always been reminding people of their power and beauty as goddesses in perpetual evolution. As I was just remembering how to feel that for myself for the first time in years, I decided that the first art I would create would make the people around me - the people I care most about - feel so loved and so beautiful.
Using only black pen on paper, each portrait became a meditation on seeing and celebrating divine feminine energy. These aren't just portraits - they're love letters, mirrors reflecting back the goddess I see in each of these women, reminders of their power written in their ancestral languages, adorned with the cultural symbols that honor their heritage.
This series marked my return not just to art, but to the practice of loving others as a pathway back to loving myself. Every line drawn was an act of healing, every portrait a celebration of the women who held me through my darkest times and taught me what divine feminine strength truly looks like.