In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.

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

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.

It's like you're organically developing yourself, moving out, metamorphosing into other forms depending on where you are, what you're doing at the time, how you want to play on things.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.