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

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

When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

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.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

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

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.