“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.” PeopleDifferentDifferencesViolencePeriodsHusbandKillingMy SisterSurvivedWidowsHorrificRougeWidowedKhmer Rouge Author:Chath Piersath
“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.” ThinkingFeelsMayPersonsDifferentSometimesStoriesHappensCertainEventsUniqueAspectSympatheticDifferent Life Author:Chath Piersath
“When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.” ArtDifferentBodyShapesElementsTransformationVisualsThings Change Author:Chath Piersath
“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.” DifferentProcessInterestingDifferent ThingsBombardedBombarded By Author:Chath Piersath
“I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.” DifferentCollaborationViewpoints Author:Chath Piersath
“You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].” ArtDifferentExperimentsMediums Author:Chath Piersath
“Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.” ArtDifferentFormShapesArt IsDifferent ThingsCapture Author:Chath Piersath
“When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.” DifferentReadingLanguageDifferent LanguagesFluent Author:Chath Piersath
“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.” IfsWayWritingDifferentSometimesWould BePerspectiveLocalsDifferent WaysIf I CouldDescriptionOutsidersInsiders Author:Chath Piersath
“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.” WorldWayWritingI CanDifferentMovingFormExistenceGreaterAccessRealmsEtcPrivilegedDifferent PlaceDifferent LifeAccess To Education Author:Chath Piersath
