Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.