This article argues that several of the formal techniques used in the graphic designs of Cashinahua Indians and other so-called “graphic peoples” can be seen as perspectivist techniques–i.e. they assist in the visualisation of the transformative potential of perceived phenomena. Whilst there has been considerable ethnographic discussion of the circumstances in which such processes occur in the region, the visual framing techniques involved have been left largely unexplored. Whence the need for an analysis of the forms or the perspectivist aesthetic of transformation. As well as investigating the perspectivist and animist context of these processes, the article also considers the possibility of seeing such designs as “abstract chimeras”.