When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away. Chath Piersath More Quotes by Chath Piersath More Quotes From 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. Chath Piersath writingworldmoving I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints. Chath Piersath viewpointscollaborationdifferent 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-bydifferentinteresting When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements. Chath Piersath elementsdifferentart There are multiple things entering in your mind. Chath Piersath enteringmultiplemind Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me. Chath Piersath newsmaysometimes 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. Chath Piersath silenceprocesstalking I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand. Chath Piersath simplepeoplethinking 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 peopleworldart This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work. Chath Piersath collaborationmaryfirsts 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 perspectiveearsthinking 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. Chath Piersath perspectivestrugglewriting 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 writingcountrythinking 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. Chath Piersath perspectivevoicewriting If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. Chath Piersath fluentbornlanguage When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. Chath Piersath differentlanguagereading 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. Chath Piersath wantplaymoving 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 shapesdifferentart You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art]. Chath Piersath mediumsdifferentart I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself. Chath Piersath academicviewswriting
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