The Liminal Camera can produce a photograph within hours of having taken it. The camera captures an image without drawing attention to itself as most cameras and camera equipment do.

The body of the camera is a shipping container which makes it hard to recognize as an image-making machine. Its size means that camera operators are able to be inside of the camera. From the operators’ vantage point, the subject appears upside down. The Liminal Camera is both an image capturing tool and perceptual tool.

In  2005, Lauren Bon's "Not A Cornfield" temporarily transformed a 32-acre brownfield on the edge of downtown Los Angeles into an agricultural and community programming site.

Working to sustain these cycles, the Metabolic Studio, located in downtown Los Angeles, aims to transform resources into energy, actions and objects that nurture life.

In an effort to bring awareness to the challenges of returning United States veteran soldiers and to share the historic significance of the Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Campus in West Los Angeles, Lauren Bon and her team created a living sculpture and hands-on experience that includes veterans and the community at large.

Bon created and unfurled a Strawberry Flag comprised of reclaimed strawberry plants growing in an aquaponic system. The project was located on the 300 + acre VA campus on a quad and uses outside resources brought in by the Metabolic Studio team --- water from the Los Angeles River and solar power.

In an act of reconciliation Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio are making a film out of silver (Ag) and water (H20) mined Owens Dry Lake that are responsible for the shape of the city of Los Angeles as we now know it. As a means to that end the Studio has so far constructed a dozen scenes over a four-year period. The completed film will be shown on the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the LA Aqueduct: November 5, 2013.

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