Part of the exhibition Nostalgia for the mud, which explores a primal desire to return to our roots, inspired by the eel's journey through life phases in search of origin, the piece To the woman you are glass explores what it feels like to be glass. After the larval stage, the next stage in the eel’s life is the “glass eel”. This thought led the artist to recall a quote from the film You Will Not Be Alone, which she wrote at the bottom of the piece:

“For the laughing, the mouth opens. And for the crying, too, the mouth opens. The man, the eye water he wants. When you are with women in the room, your mouth should never stop opening. You are a looking-glass. When her eyebrows lift up, yours, you lift them up, too. When her eyes go wide, yours, you make them go wide, too. To the woman, you are glass. To the man, you are water.”

This quote describes the indescribable feeling of collective effervescence in sisterhood, the ability to empathise and share in another's pain. To be glass Marshall explains, is to see all the raw humanness underneath, exposed. This reflection brought to Marshall’s mind another iconic scene from cinema—the crying scene in Midsommar, which inspired the composition of the piece. While some might find it disturbing, she sees it as incredibly comforting and cathartic, an embodiment of radical empathy.