I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.

Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually. You can incorporate a lot of those things that you internalize.

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.

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

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

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.