Susan Mrosek

The first of these images are greeting cards, 5X7, blank inside... "They're created digitally, meaning drawn in pencil, scanned into the computer, then painted in Photoshop. They're born by illustrating excerpts from my daily journals -- the writings almost always come first—the text can serve as their description."





12 x 18, oil on masonite. The first painting turned card. Eventually, all card images will first be paintings.	8 x 10, pencil sketch -- Another in a series of my kind, peculiar friends with whom I feel tremendously comfortable and am endlessly amused.
9 x 12, pencil sketch for the cover of my book titled Leaks -- a compilation of writings and sketches from the deep end of the pool.	13 inch, mixed media sculpture -- stucco, stone, wood, clay, paint, and cloth. Creating her was probably the most fun I've had in a long while.
7 inch, paper clay sculpture. The first piece I created since foregoing clay some 20 years ago. I was extremely grateful to be working in 3D again. Too fun.

Susan Mrosek
Pondering Pool

After cycling professionally for some 30 years in the arts, I've somehow reached the beginning again - pre critics and straight jackets - where I'm allowed to play. In fact it's a must, to the degree I'd be institutionalized if I didn't.

If it weren't for years of classic art training, my fascination with that wonderfully misshapen, erratic side of life (I consider home) would still be stuck in my head. Not that I felt compelled to go public - quite the opposite. I'm a person who strongly believed she had nothing to say. Yet despite myself, I've managed to express my feelings as a potter, painter, writer, illustrator, and most recently, sculptor. All, at various times, have been my favorite; however, writing is by far the most freeing - it led me into the Pondering Pool and out of my silence.

I constantly thank my genuinely odd characters for having the nerve to come forth to share with me, and others, the fact that being different is not a flaw, but a blessing.

P.S. I work in my Tucson, Arizona studio, which is attached to a tiny house containing my husband and cat.

Find out more at www.PonderingPool.com/