July 13, 2017 • Page Image 29
…Esther created a work for each of her daughters — and then came grandchil- dren. “My mother’s imagination took flight,” Bernice says, with the babies, and she began making stuffed animals, cloth books, blankets. “It was an amazing outpouring of objects that were clearly filled with love for her grandchildren.” Finally, 10 years later, Esther returned to what Bernice calls her mother’s “memory pictures:” the journey on stilts, the Nisenthal fam...…

















































