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Emily Henderson emilyhenderson-ri@hotmail.com 401-789-8127

I grew up on the water in a small town on the south shore of Long Island.
My mother is a painter and reared the family with well rounded values as the arts became an integral part of our young lives. Much of my early life was spent on the beach were I remember amassing a huge collection of shells, rocks, stones, dried seaweed and carcasses of all kinds. It became a daily ritual and I worked diligently to pile my treasures high into my Radio Flyer wagon as I struggled take it all home. Those were formative years and as I matured my sense of accomplishment and urgent need to express myself were carefully nurtured as I sharpened my craft, eventually publishing my drawings, paintings, and photographs while away at school. After High School, I attended Bennington College, School of Visual Arts, and Rhode Island School of Design, and I continued my assemblages and explored other medium creating a business out of repurposed furniture and successfully selling my functional works of art throughout the Hamptons and New York. In the summer of 2001 having just returned from a trip to Peru, I was fortunate enough to meet award winning sculptor Sandy Frank who took me on a strict, intimate, exploration of stone. Under her direction I became a willing participant of the stone’s many possibilities and I grew rapidly as she enabled my new found skills with her knowledge and guidance. Translucent Alabaster has become an ongoing love story of mine with each and every piece yielding pliable, colorful, and mystical forms of enlightenment and joy. My sculptures are hand wrought, hand mounted, and hand polished for maximum exposure of the bedrock’s inner deposits. With each piece accomplished, I happily reminisce with the memories of my time spent on the beach and I salute those early impressions that helped guide me towards my future with stone. The last Kiss is a tribute to 911, its tender forms and sturdy structure caressing and protecting one another. The space in between the figures is magnetically charged, drawing the figures closer and bringing resolution to the inevitable; a brief reprieve, and at last, a final kiss.