eawakened: Photographs by Kimberly LeClaire and Noreen Sadue" is a contemplative show presented by Art at Pine Harbour.

"I wanted to name our exhibition something very alive," LeClaire said. "It's springtime. A lot of the work is inspirational and colorful."

She has been fascinated with images since childhood.

"I've always liked to take pictures. When I was really young, I would sit and go through our family's pictures over and over."

ALTERNATIVE PROCESS

Pictures were memory. At Chazy Central Rural School, she learned black-and-white photography. It was another artistic medium she could do.

"This wasn't the moment I would identify with being a photographer. When I went to college, I took a bunch of art classes, and it clicked. I loved my teacher, Rebecca Solderholm. She really liked my work. We had a lot to talk about."

LeClaire concentrated on alternative processes such as liquid emulsion, cyanotype and kodalith. Her work features people within landscapes. At present, she is at work on a Master of Fine Arts degree at Johnson State College in Vermont.

In "Reawakened," she explores another alternative process, Polaroid emulsion lifts, which she learned in a one-on-one workshop with artist Eleanor Sweeney.

"It really clicked, because I could do it at home. That was key. I can't have a wet room here. You cannot throw wet-room chemicals down your drain. Digital is really expensive. I can't afford that right now."

VERSATILE IMAGES

With lifts, LeClaire makes Polaroids from slides.

"You contact the back of the Polaroid with contact paper. You heat it up in warm water, and the image comes off the paper. You can manipulate it any way you like. You can cut the image. You can fold the image. Adhere it to paper, glass, wood and fabric. It's versatile in that way."

LeClaire compositions integrate young women.

"It's not really about them. It's not a portrait."