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There is always recognition of some personal memory in the collective. Because it is, after all, a human story.

— Victor Ekpuk

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I observe identity as an ephemeral condition that is always in flux.

Essentially we are all a sum of different parts that are shaped by circumstances.

I want my works to be starting points for dialogue, new discoveries into the differences and commonalities among cultures.

I believe that our self-consciousness is borne from memory.

We’ve experienced a lot of appropriation of the ideas of African creativity, but haven’t had the creators at the center.

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

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