On Sunday night as the light was setting in the most western state, I had an epiphany and natural experience that assures me of the wonderment of what we do and the magic of life.

I was finishing our evening after recently setting up a new collection in our offices in the Hollywood hills when I walked past a vintage rusty circular pizza tray I had put on the wall...

Wait let me back track... Three months ago I was at a book fair in Los Angeles and I saw a wonderful small 5” x 7” image of a hand painted oil painting of Saturn painted in 1750. It was so impressionable to me I took a small picture of it with my phone.

A few weeks later I was still thinking of this image so I decided to get it painted as an oil but this time take it to a giant 5’ x 7’

When the painting arrived it had such a wonderful unexplained drama to it that I decided to hang it in our offices in the Hollywood Hills and style it with a vintage rusty round pizza tray to work with the circular formation of the planet. (I have been enjoying playing with very basic shapes, mainly round and square with each other—inspired on a recent trip to Venice for the Leadership Design Summit and heard a lecture by Axel Vervooldt).

When I walked past it last night, I was stopped in my tracks. The sun was setting and at that exact moment the sun cut through the black circular pizza tray and replicated a perfect planet mirroring the exact emotion and visual as the picture I had next to it. 

It was a perfect moment, a complete moment. I was completely struck by the energy that came from this moment in time and it represented everything explained and unexplained in our world of Natural Curiosities.

Nature and Science are lovers and when Art holds their hands life is complete!