"may depict" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used to convey the possibility or potential for something to be shown or portrayed in a certain way. Example: The painting may depict a bustling cityscape, but upon closer examination, one can see hidden symbols and meanings within the brushstrokes.
Politicians may depict 2 November as a day of apocalypse (or rebirth, depending on their party).
He forbids television, magazines (because of the illustrations and advertisements) and can labels (because they may depict the contents).
Daguerre's techniques survive in contemporary dioramas, which are often employed in museums and may depict any subject on any scale.
A predecessor of Picasso's contorted renderings of Dora Maar, the image may depict one of the many war widows who turned to prostitution to keep afloat.
Graphic art and harsh words may depict horrors in a more forthright manner - and yet are still only representations of actual events.
George Osborne may depict the only "real economy" as being manufacturing, but the days when you got a job by twisting a widget are over.
They may portray evil, the diabolical, and the Satanic (the negatively sacred); or, more positively, they may depict the offer of salvation, redemption, and damnation.
A picture may depict a rather short man in a French general's uniform of the early 19th century, but it may in addition portray Napoleon.
Affleck's film may depict an Iran I hardly recognise but it is a bitter reminder of how young revolutionaries and their leaders failed their country, putting Iran in a crisis that has had consequences for its people to this day.
Dr. Karl Taube, a scholar of iconography at the University of California at Riverside, said the scene may depict an important ritual in Maya mythology, the "dressing of the maize god".
That, in the realm of filmmaking (and in the absence of reliable eyewitnesses), directors may depict heaven, hell and limbo any way they please based on their religion, political leanings, aesthetic temperament, self-image and, not incidentally, budget.
