Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.

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.

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

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

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

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

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