An Inherent View of the World, by Cuban born artist Juana Valdes, is a mixed media artwork. It is made up of porcelain, brass, wood glass, and sheetrock, a brand of drywall. The entire artwork measures six feet tall, sixteen feet long, and sixteen inches, or a little under a foot and half wide. This artwork takes the form of a long and narrow wooden table, with its surface just above the eye-level of most adults. On this table’s sixteen-foot-long surface is an assortment of dozens of household objects, varying in shape, size and material. They crowd the space of the table’s surface, and their varying heights, widths, and colors, create an uneven and irregular silhouette when seen at a distance, almost like a city skyline, but in miniature. The table is elevated on six pairs of thin, evenly spaced legs. The lower two-thirds of the twelve spindly legs are smoothed and rounded. These rounded portions of the legs are painted white. The top third of the legs are untreated. This unpainted, uppermost third of each leg also features squared-off corners, resembling wooden planks. The tables surface is a long sheet of white sheetrock or drywall, a material usually used in home construction. Most of the objects on this table’s surface can be described generally tableware, more specifically as porcelain china and metal stemware. Most of the objects are dishes, wide plates, and bowls made of porcelain. The majority are white or light cream in color with small floral decorative motifs. Some of the porcelain objects could be vases for flowers or carafes for beverages, with wide bases that bulge outward as they taper to a narrow necks or openings. Some of the porcelain objects have a blue floral pattern that covers their entire surface, resembling fine pottery from China or the Netherlands. Other objects can be described as metal goblets of varying heights and sizes, wooden candle sticks, metal oil lamps, and small glass bowls.