A New Orleans denizen, Ivoire integrates the opulent sensuality and mythic atmosphere of her Southern Gothic heritage with the disciplined rigor of a scholar shaped by more than a decade of academic study in Europe and the United States. She completed undergraduate work in German Studies and Religious Studies at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, followed by postgraduate study in philosophy of religion and theology at Harvard University. Her doctoral research in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of religion extends this intellectual trajectory and furnishes the theoretical armature underlying the articulation of IVOIRE. Her work engages Western esotericism, re‑enchantment, aesthetic praxis, and the grotesque—a field in which she received a Fulbright award to conduct research in German art and literary traditions marked by the grotesque.  

 Through this synthesis of intellect and the sensuous, IVOIRE emerges as a Gesamtkunstwerk that situates its aesthetic phenomena as both the context and accoutrements of a philosophical vision. The material culture of IVOIRE—an embodiment of that vision across object, film, and text—treats aesthetic experience as a re‑enchanting practice in which sensuous form, emotion, and intellect are orchestrated into a single living Gesamtkunstwerk of perception: the Syntax of Enchantment.