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.

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

I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.

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

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

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

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.