I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

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.

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

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.