Julie Hu
Julie Hu ’22
Through The Looking Glass
My final project is a six-week project that has the theme of Through The Looking Glass. The term Through The Looking Glass came from the novel Alice In Wonderland, where Alice explored a surreal world full of colours and wondrous interactions in her dreams. While she was on her exploration, she was fully immersed in the world which defied the natural laws. Therefore, the theme suggests a blur between the surreal, photorealistic, and impressionist aspects of the ways we see the world. It could be understood literally and metaphorically, since I drew reflections of daily objects under glass vessels for the project. To do the drawings, I put different objects under glass in front of light, and portrayed the end results as a mesh of splashing colours and precise curves.
There’s a saying that some people see life under a rose-tinted glass. Well, appearances and identities of things could turn out to be very different through the looking glass!
Julie Hu ’22
Brunswick Weather in February
My aleatory project represents the change of weather over the daily 24 hours in Brunswick over the 29 days in February. It’s done as a 16 x 16 painting, with 24 columns and 29 rows, creating 696 blocks representing each hour. Then, I accessed the hourly weather history of Brunswick and changed the qualitative descriptions of weather into color codes.
The color codes are:
White—light snow
Light grey—snow
Grey—heavy snow
Light blue—light rain
Blue—rain
Semi-dark blue—heavy rain
Dark blue—wintry mix
Light yellow—cloudy
Yellow—partly cloudy
Dark yellow—sunny
Pink—fog
Dark pink—haze
My project shows that Brunswick is mainly sunny with an occasional dash of the winter cold.