
Daniela Oliver de Portillo
Todavia No Se Que Siento About Being A Woman Here Anymore, 2025
Cyanotype with color
pencil on paper
pencil on paper
40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cm
101.6 x 76.2 cm
In 2021, Ya No Sé Qué Siento About Being a Woman Here Anymore—a small piece featuring a vase surrounded by red rings and decorated with blue stars, echoing the Texas...
In 2021, Ya No Sé Qué Siento About Being a Woman Here Anymore—a small piece featuring a vase surrounded by red rings and decorated with blue stars, echoing the Texas flag, holding wilting flowers—was created as a response to Texas’s SB8, which effectively banned abortion at around six weeks. As the political landscape continued to shift—Mexico, a deeply Catholic country, expanded reproductive protections while Texas restricted them further, and then the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—the piece became heavier. The title also changed: from Ya No Sé… to Todavía No Sé…, reflecting how uncertainty persists. In this larger, 30 × 40-inch version, the symbolism broadens. The vessel no longer refers only to Texas; it now also symbolizes America. The fallen petals and stubborn stems embody both fragility and resilience—the uneasy contradictions of uprooting and existing here.