If you look deep into a tree, you see random branches and vines tumbling over each other without a beginning or end, chaotic and unstructured. When you stand back, the branches become visible as an entire plant, perfectly formed and shaped. This is the dichotomy of chaos and order. It is a basic principle of our Earth and the biology of life. Wherever there is chaos, there is order; underlying confusion is equanimity. Perhaps more than any other time in our modern lives, we are looking at the chaos in our world in a different way. The changes that we are facing in our lives are so close and personal that all we can see is the chaos of the branches. Even if our circumstances haven’t changed, we all feel a shift in our thinking and are trying to make sense of this new reality – in other words, we’re trying to see the entire tree. This concept has preoccupied our 18Karat psyche and invariably, it has distilled into our newest products.
