"On Ice"

BOB SORANI                                    
SCULPTOR
Santa Rosa, California                                               
Internet Exhibit: http://www.sonoma.edu/people/sorani 
(707) 542-1689                                                 
e-mail: Bob.Sorani@Sonoma.edu
 
Medium: Stone and wood
I obtained my BS in 1958, and in 1967 completed my Ph.D. in Physical Education. I enjoyed 35 years as a coach and a teacher of physical education/ kinesiology. In 1994 I retired from teaching to pursue sculpting full time.
At present the primary (though not total) theme of my work is sport and movement. For me, the alliance of sport and sculpture is a very natural one. My own past experiences of sport and movement often serve as a point of departure. I have discovered, observed and experienced the beauty of movement and the endless variety of its form, and I delight in the challenge as I attempt to creatively express these qualities and realities . . .to transcend the actual fact, the actual experience.
The pieces in this exhibit represent only the beginning of my effort to express in stone a poetry of motion . . . . to try to capture some of the flash and the spirit. In viewing them, I hope that you can identify with them in a meaningful way, and that you might experience some of the pleasure that I have enjoyed in creating them.