Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually. You can incorporate a lot of those things that you internalize.

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

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 read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her husband was killed after the Khmer Rouge. There are different periods in which violence has occurred, and differences in how these women became widowed and how they survived afterwards.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

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