Before the discovery of the pot, people stored their food in holes in the ground or in baskets - both vulnerable to thieving creatures and, in the case of the baskets, to wear and to weather.
It has been said that one of the reasons why English colonized so much of the world was that whatever the weather conditions he met abroad, he had already experienced something like them at home.
More hot weather, without the slightest breeze, the hearts of the desert life is also busy expanding some stuffy people suffocating, and if there is one point can to alleviate some nice green.
Whether his inspiration was a person, an animal, plants or the corner of a room, though, light was his main prey. To help him capture it, he jotted down notes about weather and colours.