The Border Trilogy

By Suzy Lee

There's an unspoken rule in publishing that an artist doesn't draw in the middle of two facing pages so as not to cause confusion. What happens though if this rule is ignored? The idea for 'The Border Trilogy' came about after a bookseller wrote to Suzy Lee saying he was perplexed about the illustration in Wave, where part of the girl and the seagull flying above her seem to be missing: "Is it a printer's error?" he asks. No it isn't: it's just that the artist wants to cross the physical borders a book can generate, shifting the reader's eye towards new perspectives. In this book, Lee reveals the secrets of how she composed and created three of her books, redefining the limits of the blank page.