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.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

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

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

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

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved 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.