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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.

Chath Piersath

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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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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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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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You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].
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There are multiple things entering in your mind.
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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 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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If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.
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