'Ivory Black is a swatchbook, a checkerboard map in shades of black and white. It’s a travelogue and history, both natural and unnatural; a menagerie with elephants, zebras, penguins and polar bears. There are memories of ebony, bitumen and ‘blanje’. It’s a ‘how-to’ of drawing with charcoal on paper, of printing with bone black ink. You’ll find musings on Malevich and Rothko, and questions: is a panda black or white? Is there a blackest black? ... A whitest white? It’s a garden where willows and tea-trees grow, where ravens mock and doves purr. And there’s Liquorice and Moon Dust ...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
