There are multiple things entering in your mind.

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.

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

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.

Even though I'm not privileged in the money world, I'm privileged in other ways: I had greater access to education, I can travel, etc. It's the same with writing: the freedom to move in and out of different places, of different realms of existence, of different life forms.

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

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