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Retired software engineer who grew up in Montana, went to Montana State College in Bozeman, and moved to California to work at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Carto's Logbook is about photography, travel and adventure; Mt. Maurice Times is tall tales mostly biographical; Carto's Library is about books I've read and liked.

Graceful — Kids, Brides and the Surreal

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Kids playing around the Thinker, Legion of Honor, SF

Graceful doesn’t come naturally for kids, but these children are making a pretty good try at it. On the other hand, brides are always graceful. Even in the most trying photoshoots.

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Marriage photo-shoot, MemChu, Stanford, 2016

Surreal artist Enrico David created this gracefully shaped plaster sculpture, and named it Room for a Small Head (Nadia). I wonder what Nadia thought of it.

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Nadia, Cantor Art Center, Stanford, 2017

Nadia is part of the exhibition, The Conjured Life: The Legacy of Surrealism, which is on display until April 3, 2017. If you’re in Palo Alto, it’s worth a visit.

Cheers. Carto

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