Hayes encourages a direct and tactile experience with her work as well as engagement with an evolving relationship to growing and maintaining large- and small-scale ecosystems.
More than mere receptacles for plants, these terrariums are sculptural artworks that form miniature ecosystems, each representing a carefully conceived microcosm.
Together, these components form a dense, diverse greenery that not only showcases plant life but also enhances the ecological complexity of the installation.
These terrariums, a seamless fusion of art and natural elements, feature meticulously selected plants and minerals housed in uniquely shaped glass containers.
[3][4][8] Notable collectors of Hayes's work include Aby Rosen,[2] Alberto Mugrabi, David Zwirner, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Marianne Boesky, and Daniel and Margaret Loeb.
[citation needed] Clients who have commissioned private landscapes include Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York, W Hotel in Miami, Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany,[9] Marianne Boesky, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicholas Rohatyn, Rafael and Diana Viñoly, David and Monica Zwirner, Mickey and Jeanne Klein, Andrea Rosen, and Jill Stuart and Ron Curtis.