George Saunders’ essay for Inka Essenhigh: The Greenhouse features in The Paris Review

'The mind is always too simply seeking meaning, trying to boil some beautiful thing down to its conceptual essence.

What can stun the mind into quietness? What can briefly flummox the mind in its quest to reduce everything to a concept?

Well, a work of art can.'

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Image: Inka Essenhigh, Poppies, 2024
Enamel on canvas
127 x 101.6 cm
50 x 40 in
© Inka Essenhigh
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
March 25 2025