studio visit, brooklyn interview by MAURIZIO CATTELAN portrait by ALEX ANTITCH MAURIZIO CATTELAN — How would you define yourself: two-dimensional or three-dimensional? EMILY MAE SMITH — I think of my work as two-dimensional. They are paintings, and though they are concerned with the world, they are pictures that depend on how we see and understand images. MAURIZIO CATTELAN — And what about you? EMILY MAE SMITH — I am a painter. MAURIZIO CATTELAN — How do you see things, really? EMILY MAE SMITH — I often see a disconnect between the way I know / believe the world to be, and the way the world is presented to me. I often wonder whose subconscious desires and anxieties are being played out in the world. It gives me a disassociated alien perspective sometimes. I think that allows me to see new juxtapositions I can paint. MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Did the Internet change our…