SARAH ROBINS
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performance art and passion projects.
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Ich bin auf der Suche nach einem ehrlichen Menschen
ἀνθρώπου ζητῶ
I’m looking for an honest man
The idea came to me over 10 years ago — found a record of it in a journal from 2014 — this desire to recreate one of my favorite anecdotes of antiquity: Diogenes walking around Athens in the light of day with a lantern in hand saying he was looking for an honest man (ἀνθρώπου ζητῶ). Unapologetic and free. An ancient yet timeless act. Perhaps ever more poignant now.
It’s hard enough being a human, being your true self, but in a world running on fabricated, filtered, curated personas, layers upon layers exerting pressure on everyone to shrink and tame their innate expansiveness, it can feel Sisyphean.
Deep fakes and the deeply fake. Artificiality and artifice. Making their incursions, intensifying illusion. This is only magnified by the increased reliance on the Frankenstein’s monster that is AI — a system that is both fed by and feeds a hive mind — and the correlative rates of cognitive decline…
Truth. Authenticity. Integrity. Where will (did) our free will go?
So on October 17th 2025, I walked through Zurich at high noon, lantern in hand, saying “Ich bin auf der Suche nach einem ehrlichen Menschen”.*
*It’s more precise than “I’m looking for an honest man”… Especially as a woman, I found this to be an opportune moment to use the more exacting German instead of my more nuanced mother tongue full of double meanings.
Some watchers (especially the elders) laughed ironically perhaps seeing my search as both funny and futile. A couple others were genuinely curious, while other people were pessimistic. A few young men seemed to take it personally insisting that they were indeed honest men (thou doth protest too much?).
May this action open the questions to us all (including myself): Are you truly living an honest life? Are you moving through life with authenticity and integrity? Where are you speaking and acting from a place of wanting to belong, wanting to be perceived in a particular way, wanting to align with some kind of constructed yet hollow superiority complex that puts a flimsy bandaid on your wounds of unworthiness? Who are you when the performative masks and veils come off?
Are you afraid to see that person in the mirror? In moments of doubt, do you consult the higher intelligence and Truth that connects and lives within us all or do you seek solace in something or someone outside of yourself ultimately serving to divide and conquer starting from the inside?
Cultivate the faith and connection with your inner knowing rather depending on outsourcing it at the slightest feeling of discomfort. Like a game of telephone, the further the message from the Source, the more distorted (and dishonest) it's going to be. In all your lights and shadows, this is where you will find your wholeness, your integrity, your honesty. No fear. The truth sets you free.
A Micro Doc
Nature, but make it sexy (Mason Bees)
One of my dreams is to voice nature documentaries.
So much so, that I once wrote Sir David Attenborough to ask for his advice. Sir David was very kind and offered some valuable guidance: to start making my own short videos about a place or a species. He noted that the subject matter didn’t need to be ‘special’; it could be, in his words, about “a mouse, a pigeon, a corner of a garden.” It’s been a couple years since that brief and magical correspondence, but I never forgot his considerate words. And in the past couple days, I felt especially inspired by the mason bees on my balcony garden, so much so that I decided to make a few videos with some facts that I’ve learned over the years witnessing them.
So behold, my micro doc:
Nature, but make it sexy (Mason Bees).
May it bring you the same laughter, learning, and joy I get by watching this gentle, dedicated, and turned on creatures every spring when they emerge from their cocoons and get to work as essential members of the ecosystem, expert pollinators that they are.
(April 2026)
Towelie 2024
A satire
💜 He’s got my vote.💜
This one’s been cooking for a while.
Now the time has come to take it out of the oven. 🥘👩🏻🍳⏲️
A couple years ago, an idea came to me: Make a political ad as Towelie, the anthropomorphic towel from South Park.
The idea made me laugh and continued to make me laugh every time I thought about it… motivation alone to follow the musing. So I did, gently, slowly, step by step, as each element needed to actualize the concept — from the towel to the jumpsuit to the face paint — came together organically and in synchronicity. Nonetheless, something was holding me back from taking the final steps... In the past few months, however, I felt a clear signal the timing was right to film and complete this project. So here we are. Please enjoy this concept, which for some may feel like a befuddling departure from my usual voice-over work with gravitas, though for those who know of my love for doing silly voices and accents, it will be no surprise, at all. 🤡
Thank you to my dearest Milky Diamond for taking the time to film this. You’re the best creative partner in crime a girl could ever wish for 💜 #youcantfakecreativegenius
Matt Stone, Trey Parker, South Park: Please accept this video as an homage to your work and token of my heartfelt admiration 🙇🏻♀️
Here’s to honoring our multidimensionality and creative urges, no matter how cuckoo bananas they may seem.
Backing track: Funkytown (Lipps Inc.)
