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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.
Chath Piersath
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When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.
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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 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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If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.
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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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The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.
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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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Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts, or poetry, a lot of those elements can come and help you, can trigger your creativity. But you have to be open, be aware, and you have to be ready to look.
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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'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.
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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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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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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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