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I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

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Art, School, Years

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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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Moving, Play, Want

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When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

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Talking, Poet, Knows

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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.

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Reading, Different, 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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Language, Born, Fluent

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

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Writing, Thinking, Wish

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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 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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Country, Writing, Thinking

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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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It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

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Book, Years, Body

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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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Art, Inspiration, Writing

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I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

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Song, Writing, Sometimes

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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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Art, People, World

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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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Simple, Thinking, People

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

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News, May, Sometimes

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There are multiple things entering in your mind.

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Mind, Entering, Multiple

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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.

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Art, Different, Elements

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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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Bombarded By, Interesting, Different

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

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Collaboration, Different, Viewpoints

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

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Collaboration, Firsts, Mary

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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.

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Thinking, Perspective, Ears

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

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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.

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Art, Different, Shapes

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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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