Hayal Pozanti’s Latest Collection ‘Pleasures Newly Found’ Explores Nature and Creativity

In a time where digital noise dominates our sensory space, Hayal Pozanti invites us to slow down, unplug, and reconnect—not just with nature, but with our very humanity. Her newest collection, Pleasures Newly Found, on view at Jessica Silverman Gallery until May 31, is a vivid meditation on what it means to be fully present in the natural world. It’s not just an exhibition it’s a full-body experience.

Pozanti’s swirling, organic oil paintings seem to breathe, shimmer, and pulse with quiet intensity. Each canvas, layered with kinetic energy and raw texture, draws viewers into a world that is both physical and transcendent. These 12 new works born from daily interactions with the wilderness of Vermont where Pozanti lives feel like love letters to the land. But they’re more than that. They’re visual testaments to what happens when an artist chooses nature over noise, intention over automation.

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“I probably have some sort of synesthesia,” Pozanti remarks. “Things shine up at me”

That hypersensitivity to the world manifests on every inch of linen she touches. Her process is entirely embodied standing on milk stools to reach towering canvases, sweeping oil paint with her hands, transferring skin and sweat into the work. It’s physical, almost ritualistic. The linen, a preferred surface, absorbs pigment differently than stark white canvas, allowing Pozanti to turn even white into a vibrant color, a strategic spark amid calm.

“In a world ruled by screens and algorithms, I’ve chosen to return to my body—through nature, through paint, through presence” — Hayal Pozanti

And yet, Pozanti’s work isn’t an escape from modernity. Instead, it’s a reimagining of what progress can look like. Through her evolution of Instant Paradise, a visual language she’s been developing for over a decade, Pozanti blurs the lines between ancient glyphs, abstract shapes, and semiotic storytelling. Once a utopian attempt to craft a global language, the system now mirrors how Hayal Pozanti interacts with the world outlines she observes in nature are translated into these symbols, forming visual sentences and stories. “The world speaks to me,” she says. “And I translate it.”

In that act of translation, there’s a powerful counter-narrative to the encroaching influence of AI. As artificial intelligence changes how we think, speak, and create, Pozanti’s work reminds us of the primal intelligence found in silence, in hands-on creation, in simply being. Her art resists replication it is uniquely alive, human, and impossible to digitize.

Looking at her paintings, you don’t just see a forest you feel it. The shimmer of dew. The thrum of spring. The awe of embodiment. In Pleasures Newly Found, Pozanti doesn’t just capture nature she channels it, offering a rare space where modern life pauses and something more essential rises to the surface: gratitude, presence, and wonder.