He invented the camera obscura, the precursor to the pinhole camera, to demonstrate how light can be used to project an image onto a flat surface. Earlier references to the camera obscura have been found in Chinese texts dating to about 400 B.C. and in the writings of Aristotle around 330 B.C.
I’m fairly certain it’s embellishment, a motif would be at least one phrase
Use smaller pieces of something to make a bigger picture, lots of different pieces are included
(glass, paper, pictures)
