"If the initial source is ancient Ejagbam- Efik-Igbo insibidi, its modern manifestation and rebirth in Ekpuk's lines and signs represent an unusual phenomenon: he turns them into a sort of architectural model, ensuring that structures neither rupture nor collapse. But those structures, one might argue, are erected on cultural artifacts of a moment long gone and of a present rescued by Ekpuk's originality and innovations. On the one hand, he endows the past with meanings; yet on the other, he propels that past into the present that speaks to many ideas. His signs and lines are designs that produce dynamic intellectual meanings. We are compelled to see his work as living "creatures" that produce functions. As the signs fit, forms emerge, linking structures to functions. Ekpuk becomes a creative engineer of sorts who must maintain a careful sense of proportion. Signs cohere and must fit and be adapted, as if they must obey the laws of gravity and the mystical laws of measurement."
-Toyin Falola.
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