For the sunroom Paula Hayes has cultivated tiny jewel orchids and nurtured them in her specially designed silicone planters. These soft biomorphic containers shelter the plants and allow the roots to develop more organically than in rigid, traditional pots. She selected these particular orchids for their preciousness and variegated leaves. The installation transforms the room into an indoor garden, through planters that are scaled to the space, and positioned to allow for visitors to move freely amongst these living sculptures.

Paula Hayes has worked with ephemeral and organic mediums throughout her career as an artist. She grew up on a farm and later developed this connection to earth into a practice that combines plants and sculpture in the form of living objects and environments. For the past six years she has created landscapes for private homes and apartments that take the form of gardens, planters and terrariums. Each project is envisioned as an individual and unique portrait of the patron. She is also working with architect Rafael Viñoly Architects on the landscape for a large research center in Pennsylvania. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Forest, a solo exhibition at Salon 94, New York, NY; Down the Garden Path: Artist’s Gardens After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; and at The Weatherspoon Museum, University of North Carolina; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; and AC Project Room, New York, NY. She earned a BS from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. www.paulahayes.com