Notes
- This narrative of Victor Ekpuk's practice is taken from my personal interaction with the artist. I was the painting instructor at the University of Akwa Ibom State in 1989 and the studio in question was my classroom studio where Ekpuk painted to pass the time while waiting for his school to reopen. My attempt to redirect his focus on graphic inscriptions was very fiercely and, as it turns out, correctly resisted. For an official biography of the artist, see www.victorepkuk.com.
- Mark Auslander, “Trans/Script: The Art of Victor Ekpuk”. Brandeis University, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004. [http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/anthro/assemblies/ekpuk.html]
- Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology, trans. WR. Boyce Gibson (London: Collier Books, 1962), 286–287.
- J.R. Osborn, “Writing the Self in the Painting of Letters: The School of Khartoum and Contemporary Calligraphic Art” (paper presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, Calif., 16 November 2006).
- See Johannes Fabian, Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
- Mark Auslander, “Trans/Script.”