Bobby's Bone Tree Sculpture Garden

Vision by Bobby Pearl

Bronze, 46" x 36"

"I worked so hard in America. I had five children and I had to work all day in the store. Esther was the oldest, but she was slow, so Sarah, the next oldest, she had to prepare the dinner. And she was so little she had to stand on a chair to reach the stove! How did she do it? Such a little one! And the boys? The boys ran wild in the streets, and I was so worried, but what could I do? I had to make money to feed the children. Shimmon? He was out playing cards, women, who knows? And at night, after I closed the store and washed the children, and did the laundry, and scrubbed the floor, Shimmon would come home and want a wife. You know what this means? And I was so tired, but he wants. He wants. "One night I ran to the window. I would throw myself out the window. I couldn't take it anymore. And I see my mother's face. 'Perele! Perele! You do this? You would do this thing?' My mother! My poor dead mother's face! No! I couldn't do it. My mother! I couldn't do it. I went back in. And Shimmon? Shimmon? He curses me."

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