The effect of my illustrations, I believe, mirror a similar effect to woodcuts of the medieval and early modern period.

Here’s Marshall McLuhan in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, in the chapter title The Print: How to Dig it.

“It is relevant to consider that the old prints and woodcuts, like the modern comic strip and comic book, provide very little data about any particular moment in time, or aspect in space, of an object. The viewer, or reader, is compelled to participate in completing and interpreting the few hints provided by the bounding lines..”

“In the low definition world of the medieval woodcut, each object created its own space, and there was no rational connected space into which it must fit.”