Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.

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

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

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

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

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.