Botanical elements such as flower bouquets, houseplants, landscapes, and botanical garden scenes are recurrent in Valdez’s compositions. Her experience natural elements as powerful symbols of growth, vitality and the cycle of life. They also establish a connection between the interior and exterior spaces we inhabit, highlighting our relationship to nature, whether it may be distant or intimate.

The arrangement of objects within interior spaces is a recurring theme for Valdez. She often begins a painting by producing a studio installation, where she carefully composes a physical still-life arrangement. She carefully considers the relationship between each object, colour, composition, and textures. The exploration of spatial arrangement highlights the balance between chaos and order, and the inherent ability to find balance within life’s moments of metamorphosis and renewal.

Valdez's paintings often possess multiple perspectives, which is a cubist reference she uses in her narrative to allow space for form and function to exist with levity.