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 work in philosophy of religion and theology, completed at Harvard University. Her continued research in philosophy of religion, based in Prague, extends this intellectual trajectory and provides the theoretical framework for the articulation of IVOIRE. This transatlantic cultivation—rooted in both aesthetic inquiry and metaphysical reflection—informs its conceptual architecture. Her research engages Western esotericism, re‑enchantment, philosophical aesthetics, and the grotesque in art and literature—a field in which she received a Fulbright award to conduct research on 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 the 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.