When Michiko Quinones saw the framed, oval-shaped 1864 watercolor of a tiny Black man peacefully fishing near a mill for the first time, she cried.

The L.A. wildfires look eerily like works of art by Alex Schaefer, Ed Ruscha, Francesca Gabbiani, John Knuth and others.

Someone once described the fair to director Helen Allen as “a galaxy of colliding worlds,” and she says that description particularly apt.