portray

They were often portrayed as submissive, visibly impoverished, or hypersexualized.

Uniquely for the time, she also portrayed insects surrounded by the plants they relied on, revealing their relationship to the wider ecosystem.

But Manet’s model, Victorine Meurent, portrays a sex worker— and perhaps was a sex worker in real life, though the historical record is unclear.

You need the maps in order to portray the structure of the body, portray the state of the body so that the brain can construct a response and generate some kind of corrective action.