Suzy Poling was born in Michigan, went to college in Chicago, and is currently based in Oakland. Poling is an exhibiting artist and photographer, and a musical performer called Pod Blotz. Poling is concerned with hypnotic realms, natural phenomena, ecological oddities, human experience in relation to ecology, systematized order of space, and comprehensions of entropy. Along with making art for exhibition, Poling is a freelance fashion photographer and makes abstract silkscreened clothing.