The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

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.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

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

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

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