Only four or five colours (and only the local colours of the object), only the brush, an empty canvas without preliminary sketches and, at most, a day to work in.

ECONOMIST: Avigdor Arikha, painter of life, died on April 29th, aged 81

Such questions are easier on Ascension, where the ecological canvas was almost empty to begin with, than in the other novel ecosystems that humans are, mostly by accident, setting up around the planet.

ECONOMIST: Ascension Island