my name is emily de lima. I am a Brazilian-American artist and designer based in Queens, NYC, working across visual arts, architecture, fashion, sculpture, and photography. I recently graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor's of architecture degree.
My work explores themes of origin, cultural sensitivity, and how things function, often examining our relationship with nature and how knowledge is passed through stories, traditions, and craft, and how we as humans have used these methods to understand the meaning we create across time and place.
I think a lot about humans versus shells, how the outer layers we carry affect how people see us. These shells appear on many scales: in the spaces we occupy, the clothes we wear, even the ways we carry ourselves. Often, they get in the way of truly seeing each other as human.
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