The Beginning of It All

How did it all start? Where did human beings begin to tell things with the images they created? I look back and don't see where to start. Of whatever point I pick up in the story, there's always aglo anterior with images that tell things. That brings me to.... Prehistory? Cave paintings? And here everything changes for me.

I've never known how to value cave paintings. To me, they were an antiquity with no more value than being the first works to be preserved.

Its basic and extremely simple shapes never caught my attention, always concerned with drawing things "right". But when I look at them with my eyes now, I have discovered something very important in them. Communicate. Within these coarse forms lies perfect communication. Those illustrators told us how they lived and if you look at the images, you can understand them perfectly. It doesn't matter if the shape that represents a hunter is not realistic at all. We understand that he is a hunter because he carries a bow and chases animals. It's perfect communication. In fact, we could recreate that illustration now, realistically, and we wouldn't improve the communication in it.

That is, if we commission a thousand different illustrators to represent an image in which hunters are hunting. We will have a thousand ways (poetry) to illustrate a single piece of information.