In the Image of My Queens, I Stand
A meditation on divine feminine lineage—honoring the queens who came before, celebrating the sovereignty of women in this moment, and painting prayers for the daughters who will inherit our dreams transformed into their realities.
COMING SOON...
Earth • 2023Mirror of Now
Water • 2024Daughters Unborn
Fire • 2024On Sacred Lineage
"We are not the first women to dream of freedom, nor will we be the last. In every generation, queens emerge—not born to thrones, but crowned by their courage, their refusal to accept what is for what could be."
"Each painting in this series is a prayer, a recognition, a promise. To the ancestors whose strength runs in our blood. To the sisters walking beside us in this moment. To the daughters who will inherit our struggles transformed into their birthright."
Series Statement
"In the Image of My Queens, I Stand" emerges from a spiritual awakening to the divine feminine lineage that flows through all women. As a Palestinian woman in diaspora, I often felt disconnected from the matriarchal wisdom of my heritage. These paintings became a practice of reconnection.
Each canvas explores a different dimension of feminine divinity—the earth wisdom of our ancestors, the flowing power of our present moment, and the luminous potential of future generations. They form a trinity not of worship, but of recognition: we are queens because they were queens, because we choose to be queens, because we are raising queens.
This series asks: What changes when we see ourselves as part of an unbroken chain of feminine divinity? How do we honor the past, embody the present, and paint the future in the colors of our deepest dreams?
— Maya Murry, 2024Poetic Meditation
This series was inspired by and created alongside the poem "Good Women"— a meditation on the divine feminine that flows through generations.