Habited [An Embodiment Series]

Emma Rae Binnendyk

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Emily Carr Alumni Association Graduation Award for Community Engagement — Honourable Mention

[a permissive reiteration of Merriam-Webster’s definition]

Habit/ed

[hab·it/hab·i·tid]

1: a settled tendency or usual manner of behaviour

2: an acquired mode of behaviour that has become nearly or completely involuntary (an addiction, a pattern)

3: a costume characteristic of a calling, rank, or function (commonly religious; i.e. a nun’s habit)

4: (ARCHAIC) clothing; to clothe/dress

5: manner of conducting oneself: bearing

6: bodily appearance or makeup

7: the prevailing disposition or character of a person’s thoughts and feelings

+ (ARCHAIC) inhabited: to dwell; to occupy as a place of settled residence or habitat

Untitled, 2025

64″ x 60″

button-up shirts, bedlinen, thread

Untitled (Lamp), 2025

button-up shirt, hanger, electrical wire, thread

shelter

Shelter, 2025

42″ x 34″

dad’s old shirt, leftover fabric from mom’s upholstery project, thread

Ceci est une chemise, 2024

31″ x 23″

blouse, poster board, glass frame

Life Cycles, 2025

60″ x 40″

secondhand floral dress, tablecloth, thread

Passengers, 2025

polo shirt, electrical wire, thread

Keep, Watch, 2025

16″ x 20″

old t-shirt, bedlinen, found buttons, thread

Cast, 2025

50″ x 40″

tank top, bedlinen, thread

other embodiments — portfolio selections………………………………….

Entangled, 2025

11″ x 11″

necklace set, remnant fabric, ring, thread

Through, 2024

20″ x 24″

acrylic on bedlinen

Out the Window, 2024

36″ x 31″

bedlinen, found buttons, thread

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ILLUSTRATION

the adornments of story

In my illustration work, I place heavy emphasis on symbolism, soft textures, and compositions with many layers of meaning and/or a cinematic quality snapshotting life’s ephemeral moments which might once be sweet, then incredibly mundane, but are each integral to our stories.

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Emma Rae Binnendyk

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is an artist, designer, and illustrator based between Abbotsford and Vancouver, BC.

Emma Rae’s studio practice examines one’s relationship to lived environments in dialogue with ecofeminist and post/minimalist theories through sewing, painting, and drawing. Graduating with a BFA with a major in illustration from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, her work is supplanted by a semester spent abroad at Paris College of Art studying fashion design and textiles in relation to premises of sustainability and textile craft as artistic practice. Born with a natural predilection toward all things art and fashion, her work is simultaneously rooted in her Dutch heritage and a rural upbringing on her family farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia, nurturing the foundation for a practice concerned with value, care, and environment.

Her illustration work, while a distinct practice of its own, likewise employs soft textures, an emphasis on wardrobe, symbolism, organic forms, and minimalist design choices which echo her oeuvre in both intention and design.

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