As we approach the elephants, he takes out a small plastic squeeze bottle containing fine white ash and puffs some into the air, gauging the breeze.

WSJ: Walk With the Animals

At dawn, he could see that but for the roadside oaks everything was gone, burned off the face of the earth as if by a powerful beam of light, the house standing naked and singed in a field of white ash.

NEWYORKER: Idols

You'd think tennis would be with it by now, chucking the tradition of crowd silence into the same ash bin as all-white playing duds and wooden rackets.

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The Ash might be salty or sweet, blackish or white.

ECONOMIST: Sai Baba

On view through 30 June in Malingue's white, sunny space are works by contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan, who uses ash to craft paintings and sculptures that denote the impermanence of human life.

BBC: High-end art in Hong Kong