Every artistic expression (or better: every human expression)
comes when you set up a limit. Limes is the common code
we use to communicate: the language, the register, the
jargon, the medium, the nonverbal. It's not something to be
afraid of, because creativity starts once you cross it (or get
around it). The format, the technique and the instruments
that are used to draw are limits, as well; but they open the
possibilities of the illustrative game, instead of closing them.
Without borders you can’t trigger the effort to go beyond,
or simply explore, the territory. It’s no coincidence that in
sports we call it field of play, an expression that combines
the concepts you’ll find in the following pages. Illustration
as a ludus, to run into and get past a limit (physical, spatial,
social), in a path bound to interaction...
