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All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.
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Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.
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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.
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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.
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If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.
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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.
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I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.
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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.
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I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their oral histories, I'm taking a step back to do my own art book and visual work.
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I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something I haven't practiced as diligently as my visual art. I've been doing visual art because I think it's easier for me to construct, whereas words are very difficult.
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Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.
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The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.
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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.
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You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.
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Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.
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I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.
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A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.
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I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.
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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.
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I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.
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I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.
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