Foreshorten /(?)/

Fore·short·en

Foreshorten

v. t.
  1. To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. (Fine Art)
  2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
    Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time.