Perspective
In "Intersection of Reality and Fiction in Art Perception: Pictorial Space, Body Sway and Mental Imagery", Dr. Joanna Ganczarek and her colleagues studied how perspective in art affects the body's reaction to art, specifically in the form of body sway. In this paper, they suggest that, " it is possible that viewer’s posture might be affected by mental spatial transformations needed to disambiguate complicated and conflicting spatial layouts and by movement cues rather than depth cues" (Ganczarek, 235). This statement suggests that the spatial layout of a piece of artwork can have a literal physical effect on the viewer, let alone a mental effect.
Yan uses this effect in Fisheye Placebo by utilizing fisheye lensing techniques and unusual angles. Additionally, the comics themselves are formatted as long, vertical strips, with one panel flowing into the next.This unusual format provides a sense of stability to ground the reader in a world of extreme angles and bizarre perspectives.