ZORA’S STANCE
Digital Art Print
From We Were Never Meant to Beg for Light
Zora’s Stance is a visual meditation on presence, autonomy, and unapologetic selfhood, inspired by the poem of the same name. The figure stands grounded and composed—hands on hips, gaze forward—not performing resistance, but embodying it.
Set against a stylized cityscape, the composition evokes movement, intellect, and cultural continuity. This is not a portrait of struggle. It is a portrait of arrival. The stance signals what Zora Neale Hurston carried into every room she entered: independence, wit, discipline, and refusal to shrink.
Part of We Were Never Meant to Beg for Light, this piece honors Black womanhood as self-possessed and self-defining. The posture is deliberate. The elegance is intentional. Nothing here asks permission.
This is not homage through nostalgia.
It is recognition through strength.