Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

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

I'm doing a collaborative project with another artist, Mary Hamill. My project is to gather the oral history of war widows, starting with the women of my village, Kop Nymit.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

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

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.