J. F. Roux
Roux thought that the act of artistic creation resides in the decisions that the artist makes about what to leave out from the represented world, so that a painting is the product of the artist’s considered choices about what forms and colours to emphasise. There are some early paintings at Langebaan of fishing boats and later, from a trip with Margot to Sicily, of dwellings. Roux was also commissioned on occasion to paint pictures of farm houses. But on the whole, his landscapes represent nature in all its timelessness, stripped of any trace of human intervention.
Stacte
The book of Ecclesiasticus lists storax as one of the ingredients when alluding to the sacred incense of the biblical tabernacle, speaking of “a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax,[in antiquity Styrax was referred to as Storax] and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle”. Either myrrh was treated with storax or by the time of the first temple period a fifth ingredient was added to the ketoret. Myrrh may have been treated with storax or storax oil to further enhance the fragrance. Frederic Charles Cook's commentary on Exodus 30:34 says that it seems by no means unlikely that benzoin was part of the incense of Exodus 30. For centuries, myrrh has been scented with "Styrax benzoin", particularly in the Middle East, to scent private homes and places of worship.