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Claudia grew up and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained as a fine art painter and figure drawer, Claudia backed into photography only as a source for the oil paintings and charcoal drawings. While learning the traditional methods of development and printing, improvisation and experiment became a powerful lure. Around the same time she began solo backpacking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Alternative processes and Pinhole Photography being a perfect match for hiking: the cameras are light and any light-leaks or radical temperature changes only can enhance the outcome. Botanical imagery, even in local parks, works beautifully with Solarization.

This current series is the result of darkroom manipulation of large format pinhole images from a pet kibble and butter cookie cameras.

There is pure magic in that the tiny pinhole of light contains the entire world. When I then solarize the film, I feel like the sorcerer's apprentice, marshaling powerful organic forces to the brink of chaos.

Note on processes: The diptych tree series are made from 2 side by side solarized Kodaliths (8" x 10" Ortho Litho films) contact printed on type C-print paper. Claudia uses a large dog kibble container pinhole camera. Images following are 120 mm panoramas are made from very expired color chrome films that are cross-processed in C-41 chemistry. Claudia uses a Danish Butter cookie can pinhole camera for all of them.

Claudia Wornum
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