He recently completed a set of five photographic "drawings": perspective-tweaked montages of people arranged around his studio that are displayed on high-definition screens.
Later, in the studio, he converted these studies into more polished drawings, adjusting perspective and scale.
And in some of the drawings, the perspective is clearly altered to emphasise the sinister, louring effects of the temple colonnades.
The drawings use heightened perspective and exaggerated angles, and they make the building look futuristic and imposing, even today.
Finally, students will create their own realistic drawings concentrating on perspective and reflect on the experience through writing.
However, these are not painted backdrops, but perspective drawings, which are intriguingly combined with the action through digital means.
To figure out how to render the long, slender racing shells in space, Eakins made the most detailed perspective drawings of his career.
As Coupland writes: "One must remember that Marshall arrived at these conclusions not by hanging around, say, NASA or I.B.M., but rather by studying arcane 16th-century Reformation pamphleteers, the writings of James Joyce, and Renaissance perspective drawings.
Simple perspective drawings on cardboard create little stages within the stage, as talk of failed love affairs and existential emptiness is spliced with soap opera scenarios: "Ben's in the hospital -- again".; "Luckily, it's worse than we thought".
"These are dramatic drawings with distorted perspective: he creates highly ambiguous spaces," said Kierkuc-Bielinski. "There is incredible theatricality and inventiveness; he breaks rules and creates dense, rich, terrifying, disconcerting scenes".
