Surroundings, Auras, and Feelings
June Lihua Yu is a designer and artist currently based in New York City. She is fascinated by the concept of “surrounding.” For her, it’s not just a spatial idea—it’s a way of thinking about how meaning is formed. Fandom, for example, is about shared emotional atmospheres; paratexts orbit main narratives like satellites; reviews distill and reframe a film or novel’s essence. Everything, she believes, possesses an aura—a unique, invisible feeling that lingers around objects, images, and words.
