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Flowers in Starlight, enamel on canvas, 24×24, 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

The artist’s individual struggle, individuation as Jung would have put it, as it worked itself out in her own career:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I wanted to paint what today looked like or felt like. But as I just grew older it didn\u2019t seem as important to make paintings that were necessarily as contemporary as possible. I wanted to make paintings that I wanted to make. You don\u2019t have a choice.<\/i> You can try to make the work you think everybody likes, but that isn\u2019t going to work. <\/i>If I had never changed then possibly I would just be that person who made paintings that looked as if they were done in the 90s. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 –Inka Essenhigh<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to be light and girly and trivial and I suddenly was and I loved it<\/em> and it was all okay. And I had an immediate sense of relief.<\/em> I could tell stories and I knew that I was on the right track for making something that was important to me. I could pursue what you might call \u201cthe inner world.\u201d I could sit down and look for certain images I wanted to paint and they would look a certain way, they would feel a certain way. They could have that feeling of child-like wonder and I could bring it forward. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

–Inka Essenhigh<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The artist’s individual struggle, individuation as Jung would have put it, as it worked itself out in her own career:\u00a0 I wanted to paint what today looked like or felt like. But as I just grew older it didn\u2019t seem as important to make paintings that were necessarily as contemporary as possible. 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