Chath Piersath Quotes

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• It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

  Chath Piersath

  Literature, Language, Born

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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.

  Chath Piersath

  Helping Others, People, Stories

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• Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

  Chath Piersath

  People, Connections, Facts

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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.

  Chath Piersath

  Moving, Writing, World

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• This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

  Chath Piersath

  Collaboration, Firsts, Mary

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• I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.

  Chath Piersath

  Collaboration, Different, Viewpoints

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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.

  Chath Piersath

  Bombarded By, Interesting, Different

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• When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Different, Elements

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• There are multiple things entering in your mind.

  Chath Piersath

  Mind, Entering, Multiple

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• Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

  Chath Piersath

  News, May, Sometimes

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• Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added dimension to the visual aspects of the work. Also the processes and approaches that I'm thinking are about learning. I'm playing it by ear to experiment and see what happens.

  Chath Piersath

  Thinking, Perspective, Ears

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• You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Different, Mediums

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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.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Different, Shapes

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• I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

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  Struggle, Writing, Perspective

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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.

  Chath Piersath

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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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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  Writing, Perspective, Way

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• I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

  Chath Piersath

  Writing, Thinking, Wish

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• If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

  Chath Piersath

  Language, Born, Fluent

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• When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

  Chath Piersath

  Reading, Different, Language

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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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  Writing, Voice, Perspective

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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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  Art, Creativity, Tools

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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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  Talking, Silence, Process

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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.

  Chath Piersath

  Simple, Thinking, People

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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.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, People, World

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• I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

  Chath Piersath

  Years, Six Months, Cambodia

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