The human form constitutes VAL’s primary source of inspiration.

VAL thinks of herself as having a “mental library of sensations.” A book or a random street scene instinctively nourish this stock of images and arouse a tumult of emotions that is later translated in clay and ultimately in metal.

These roughly identical figures with their generic features suggest that it is humanity as a whole that VAL is attempting to portray. The dominant themes exemplified in her work are all connected to the idea of human destiny: