6 Work Surfaces was an installation project at the UCLA Galleries. The project called into question the seriousness and authority of gallery display by proliferating a series of noncompliant projections that point toward alternative occupations of the space. Building from the existing L-shaped walls, the installation unfolds a set of additional wall-figures—suggestive of doorways, corridors, rooms, and stairs—each casting eccentric, carpeted “shadows” that disrupt the spatial and formal logic of their origin.

These horizontal projections and their vertical supports drift between moments of connection and separation, refusing dominant–submissive hierarchies. While the wall figures hold their planar address, the carpets push back—adopting spatial and material presence in their own right. High-pile burgundy and sheared orange carpet cover, drape, and ornament the gallery, their textures shifting between the abject and the luxurious. In this reciprocity, the horizontal and vertical interrogate one another, refracting and compounding rather than aligning, producing divergent architectural objects and alternative gestalts.

The installation puts forward a reshuffling of hierarchies between support and display, form and representation, materialism and abstraction, ground and ornament—allowing category errors, transpositions, and irreducible differences to coexist.