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I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.
Chath Piersath
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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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All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.
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I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.
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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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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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The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.
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You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].
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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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I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.
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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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Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.
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It's like you're organically developing yourself, moving out, metamorphosing into other forms depending on where you are, what you're doing at the time, how you want to play on things.
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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 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 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.
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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 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 have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.
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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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