I'm still trying to figure out if your narrative was supposed to be a pun or if I'm just taking it that way. Yes, the black and white works very well for this, although I do like brickwork and the color that usually goes along with it :)
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web." Pablo Picasso