MAHA Maya Classic Semi-Glossy Paper Poster

Maha Maya was the mother of Siddhartha — the woman who carried the one who would become the Buddha, who died seven days after giving birth, who never saw what her body brought into the world. History kept the son and let the mother dissolve into the margins of her own story. Livity Tree Art brings her back to the center.

But Maha Maya here is more than one woman's story. She carries the thread of Chinese migration into the Caribbean — the generations of Hakka and Cantonese workers brought to the islands in the nineteenth century as indenture labor, who stayed, who married into African and Amerindian and Creole families, who left their genetic and spiritual signature quietly woven into Caribbean bloodlines across the region. This is not a lineage Katherin Joyette claims as named ancestry. It is something subtler: a transmission through the blood that surfaces as recognition — a face that looks familiar, a practice that feels known, a resonance with the lotus and the wheel that arrives without explanation.

Some ancestral memory does not announce itself. It simply lives in the body, waiting to be acknowledged. This portrait is that acknowledgment.

For the Caribbean woman who has always felt more complexity in her lineage than any single story could hold. For the person who senses something in them that has no name yet in their family history.

Print Details
Semi-glossy finish · Lighter weight, silky to the touch
Museum-quality inks · Fade resistant
Available in square sizes from 10×10″ to 18×18″
Ships flat · Ready to frame

Part of the Erased Daughters Collection — Livity Tree Art · Transmissions, not trends.