As I settled into my evening routine after a busy day at the gallery, the last thing I expected was to have my peace shattered by a news broadcast. The headline read, “Grass Fire Escalates in Horningsea Park.” The images that followed were both alarming and captivating—flames roaring across dry grasslands, thick smoke filling the sky, and firefighters battling the blaze. The fire was dangerously close to my home in Southern Sydney, where I had my priceless art collection.