Persimmon Tree is very pleased to honor Lorraine Bonner and her creative work in this issue. A respected and beloved physician for many years, she has written: “I was drawn to science at an early age, and throughout my childhood and early adolescence, I harbored a secret goal to win the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology. One day, while studying viral DNA, I realized that I was learning more and more about an ever smaller world, and decided I had to turn that telescope around. Now the focus of my experiments is my own life on the planet, and my studio is my lab, but many of the questions have remained the same.

Lorraine Bonner lives and works in her studio full-time now in the Bay Area. Her website can be found at www.lorrainebonner.com.

Clearing the Channel
Clay, 2007
10 x 6 x 4 inches

Daughter of Perpetration
Clay, 2004
15 x 10 x 7 inches

Devourer
Clay, 2002
14 x 16 x 22 inches

Dismantling the Perpetrator’s House; The Search for New Tools
Clay, 2004
20 x 22 x 13 inches

Frontrunners
Clay, 2007
12 x 11 x 8 inches

George
Clay, 2005
13 x 18 x 12 inches

Grandmother’s Elder Sister
Clay, 2006
16 x 15 x 15 inches

Inescapable
Clay, 2003
15 x 14 x 8 inches

In Her Hands
Bronze, 2007
6 x 7 x 7 inches

Internalized Perpetration
Clay, 2001
13 x 13 x 10 inches

We Are Freed By the Hands of Our Children
Clay, 2007
13 x 17 x 10 inches

We Are Made of the Same Stuff As Stars
Picasso Marble, 1998
9 x 16 x 10 inches

World Trade
Clay, 2002
8 x 30 x 20 inches

What I See
Clay, 2007
9 x 9 x 5 inches