Our Story
Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio team has decided to create this site dedicated to election questions, as we have found that we and our community are confused by this process. Though we are not experts, we will provide answers where we feel we can, by engaging in research. We are connected to many expert organizers and thinkers to whom we will outsource some answers if we feel we cannot sufficiently approach them ourselves.
Please feel free to use this site to post any questions that arise pertaining to voting in this election. They can be existential in nature; they do not need to be seeking answers. We appreciate your participation and hope that this forum can provide some clarity amid the fog.
Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include: Not A Cornfield, which transformed and revived an industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into a thirty-two-acre cornfield for one agricultural cycle; 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 240-mile performative action that aimed to reconnect the city of Los Angeles with the source of its water for the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Her studio’s current work, Bending the River Back into the City, aims to utilize Los Angeles’ first private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the LA River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown LA. This model can be replicated to regenerate the 52-mile LA River, reconnect it to its floodplain and form a citizens’ utility.