Sarah's creative practice focuses on liminality, identity, and collective trauma. Her works were displayed in two solo exhibitions, multiple group ones around Budapest, as well as at Oyoun Berlin in MENA Art Gallery's last exhibition Land, Safety, & Grief. Additionally, her work was featured on the first issue of Fusayfsa' Journal and Low Tides Zine.

Currently, Sarah uses her background in Art and Psychology, to explore ways to connect the two fields through facilitating workshops in her art circle, Inner Brush, in Budapest, where she is currently based.

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1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?

I arrived in Hungary in September 2017 to start my undergraduate degree at McDaniel College, where I studied Art and Psychology as part of their Liberal Arts Program. It was mostly the search for a program that provides this combination of fields in English that brought me here and I'm very glad it did!

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?

Yes, I lived in Doha, Qatar with my family; we moved there when I was 15 and I lived there until I moved to Budapest.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?

From my experience, I can mostly just talk about Budapest. Even though I have been here for quite some time, I am still mindblown by the beauty of this city and its architecture, my favourite thing to do is to go on Margit híd and just look at the skyline between the hills on one side and the parliament on the other. I also recently started exploring more around the country and have been discovering a different side of beauty in Hungary's nature.

4. Friends are in Budapest for the weekend - what must they absolutely see and do? 

I would definitely take them to the castle district since it gives a great view of the city on both sides and if the time allows, I would suggest a day trip to Szentendre too. Most definitely would end up with a tea or a drink at Zsivágó or Három Holló.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?

Marhapörkölt is my favourite and anything with Nokedli would make me happy. I also love smoked sausages here a lot!

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?

Anyone who has been to my house would probably say yogurt and they would be absolutely right.

7. What is your favourite Hungarian word?

I like the word mizu, it just sounds like such a cute way to start the conversation.

8. What do you miss most from home? 

The sun, the company, and the food.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?

I had the goal of becoming a professional musician but I think visual arts have won me over after all.

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?

I spent new year's at Balaton and it was such a great experience, although it was very cold that I couldn't enjoy the view by the lake as much as I would have liked but it really has a different charm in winter.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?

I would like to go back home and explore Siwa Oawsis since I haven't had the chance to visit it yet.

12. Apart from temptation what can't you resist?

Chips

13. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?

My favourite hobby was playing classical guitar, I still do it but very occasionally.

14. Books or films?

Films

14. Morning person or night person?

Morning person

15. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?

Mental health, I am very interested in a reform movement of how we currently approach mental health issues and how as a society, we pathologize symptoms of a dysfunctional system rather than fixing the root causes of what makes people suffer.

16. Buda or Pest?

Buda

17. What would you say is your personal motto? 

"The only way out is through" - Robert Frost