Yolanda Lopez' Your vote has power

I really enjoy Lopez' work because of all the different elements she uses as well as the content she conveys through her images. Her art is profound in the way it delivers its message and in ' Your Vote Has Power piece from her Women's Work Is Never Done series she delivers her message through humor. In this piece there is an Ecuadoran woman carrying a baby while putting her voting ballot in the box. The humor in it is that Lopez' intention was to create "the most frightening thing that governor Pete Wilson could imagine during his campaign to support California Proposition 187"(56) which she imagined would be a fertile woman of color voting. She decided to depict this image because prop 187 would restrict the access that immigrants had to vital human resources (education, medical, and social services). She has the incredible ability to allow an image to actually speak with her attention to detail. She never has to put into words that fertility is a threat, its shown through the way a working woman with a child and agency is seen as resistance. There are a lot of traces of her early career as a political artist in this although it was created almost 30 years later, you can see the evolution between Free Los Ciete (1969) and Your Vote Has Power(1997) yet both have the underlying energy of profoundness.