Paula Hayes

Paula Hayes is a landscape designer and artist who is heavily influenced by the natural things in life, more specifically plants. She uses various materials to house her arrangements but mostly uses blown glass, acrylic or silicone to house a variety of plant life cleverly placed. Currently Hayes has an installment in the Museum of Modern Art which is 15 feet long, horizontal wall mounted sculpture and a free standing egg shape sculpture all filled with lush vegetation. Hayes stresses the importance of the landscape and its impact on her as a child and that she likes to include organic shapes in her peices such the as image below of the peice slug and egg.

When people refer to her art as a seductive art object rather than her interpretation of a garden she likes to say that the its not an object its a verb that will hopefully be a transforming process in the life of these organic objects inside non organic object. The piece above is the largest scale of project she has worked on and most of her project are smaller orbs and jugs made of blown glass with arrangements growing inside of them. Coming from a landscape architecture back ground its really nice to see an artist doing something with the natural and taking time to appreciate something that so many people take for granted.