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Victor Ehikhamenor
The Roots of Udomi-Uwessan A small village in Edo State, Nigeria, provides the initial frame. In 1970, Victor Ehikhamenor is born into a landscape defined by the traditions of the Benin Kingdom. The visual language of his childhood is not found in books but in the tactile reality of his kin: a grandmother weaving cloth on a min-loom, an uncle capturing moments through a camera lens, and a maternal grandfather working as a blacksmith. Th
ese figures move through a world of locally dyed threads and charcoal pigments applied to shrine walls. The transition to formal education brings a shift in geography and discipline. He moves from Ambrose Alli University, where he studies English and Literary Studies, to the United States. At the University of Maryland, his intellectual pursuits expand into Technology Management and Creative Writing. This duality—the technical precisio…