On Feeling Both Foreign and At Home with Julie Sadowski

16/11/2021 36 min

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Episode Synopsis

Julie Sadowski is an artist currently based in Warsaw. Her parents immigrated to the United States to escape the Soviet Bloc in the early 1980’s; shortly after Julie was born in Boston, USSR collapsed and the Sadowskis moved back to Poland. The episode covers the longing to be in two places – two homes – at once. Does feeling foreign ever end? Listen in for notes on immigrating cars, haunting architecture, and evocative bricks and find out why some Polish-Americans sent toothpaste to their Polish relatives in 2008.