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

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

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

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.

When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

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.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.