portable sculptures called "Adaptives" or "Fitting Pieces", environments and furniture - "welded metal chairs and divans, some minimally padded and upholstered in raw linen." For his early sculptures, West often covered ordinary objects--bottles, machine parts, pieces of furniture and other, unidentifiable things--with gauze and plaster, producing "lumpy, grungy, dirty-white objects".

In the late 1990s, West turned to large-scale lacquered aluminum pieces, the first (and several after) inspired