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• 1 2017-11-14T21:18:51-08:00 Perspective 6 Britta Harbury plain 2017-11-19T19:18:28-08:00 The very name Fisheye Placebo is an allusion to an artistic technique commonly used in dramatic painting - the fisheye effect. Fisheye effect bends​ lines that would normally be parallel, creating a far more dynamic effect. The name Fisheye Placebo implies a replacement of a distortion, bending the world to the artist's will. This effect is furthered by the fact that fisheye lenses are associated with photography, an art form traditionally thought to be very true to life. Photography and the distortion of photography are common motifs in Fisheye Placebo, demonstrating how people can twist perception of reality into anything they want.
  
  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.