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.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

There are multiple things entering in your mind.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

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