When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

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.

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

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

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

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 get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.