It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

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

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

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.

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

I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who come back here from the United States and are Cambodian also write from their American references - looking inside the old culture, and looking at themselves as an American looking into the country where they were born.

I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.