I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

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

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

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

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

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