Hayashi incorporates his Japanese sensibilities for the love of the simple, vapid, and ephemeral, with the Western rigor for conceptual and psychological analysis. His recent work has incorporated ideas of a “place” and takes into consideration of how artworks work in relationship to certain site. This consideration often expands beyond the limits of a room in a gallery or a museum, and encompasses more global perspective of the locale. The artwork not only becomes a microscopic study of the object, but serves as a starting point to a macroscopic investigation of the surrounding location (city, town, country). The work is often created on site after extensive study of the topography, landscape, and its people. He incorporates mixed media ranging from video, woods, ceramics, fiber, paper, and metals. Hayashi is particularly drawn to materials that are mundane and fragile as a metaphor for the human condition. The void within the piece is the potentiality of life. Ultimately, the work is deeply process based and often relies upon collaboration of the site, as well as those who inhabit the area for a solution.