Touch is a full-body experience. Yet, in conceptualizing touch we often concentrate on engaging the hand alone, and hence create objects to touch that do not engage many of the body’s impressive and varied haptic abilities.​ Bonnie's sculptural Cast Hugs are created for and by the body, and are aimed at physical interaction resulting in what she calls 'grounded sensuality', a moment when a consonance of physical and emotional centredness occurs. 

The artwork resides not in the sculptures themselves but in one's experience of those sculptures, so no artwork is complete until it is held. They are about finding comfort in a frightening world, offering comfort through the body’s physical interaction with low-fired stoneware forms that were made from the embrace and for the embrace. ‘Soft’, textured, and made to fit the body by using Bonnie's own and others’ bodies to cast hugs, the ceramic sculptures instinctively invite a reciprocal embrace from exhibition visitors, who describe the experience as self-reflective, comforting, and safe, a positive moment of heightened body awareness and self-intimacy.