This is Vallien. Cast glass is ethereal yet solid. I fell in love with it when I saw a Ben Tre exhibit which was at the San Jose MOMA if I remember it right. I first saw Vallien's work at the de Young. Besides the qualities of the materials themselves I love this work because it depicts how I seem to relate to the world, through a thick layer of opaque, solid, impenatrable material. I can essentially see and be seen but understanding does not come nor go through the glass.