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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.
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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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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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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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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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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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For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.
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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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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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The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.
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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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