Dancing Children

"Circle of Life"

The Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation and the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation

art have commissioned Daniel Oberti to create a sculpture for the Children’s Memorial Grove at Spring Lake in Santa Rosa.

Oberti’s design consists of five life size stick-like childish figures dancing together in a circular form. Made of steel tubing and animated with gesture each child is passing a sphere to the next child forming an incomplete circle.

The open space honors the missing child who has left us.

Any visiting child or adult can hold hands within the opening to complete the circle

and become part of the Dancing Children’s Circle of Life.

The largest figure is 5’ in height and all the characters are finished in powder coated bright primary colors.

Oberti worked with the ART START Program and assistants Michelle Staykopw and Kyle Alexander

to create this Public Art Project.