I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

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

Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who come back here from the United States and are Cambodian also write from their American references - looking inside the old culture, and looking at themselves as an American looking into the country where they were born.