I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer. — Chath Piersath I can Copy Share Image
This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work. — Chath Piersath Collaboration Copy Share Image
I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually. — Chath Piersath Cambodia Copy Share Image
Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me. — Chath Piersath Affects Copy Share Image
You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art]. — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints. — Chath Piersath Collaboration Copy Share Image
I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more… — Chath Piersath Can do Copy Share Image
How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really… — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of… — Chath Piersath Dictionary Copy Share Image
I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us… — Chath Piersath Aspect Copy Share Image
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… — Chath Piersath Developing Copy Share Image
Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere… — Chath Piersath Bigs Copy Share Image
In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to… — Chath Piersath Ability Copy Share Image
Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to… — Chath Piersath Aspiration Copy Share Image
I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me.… — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually.… — Chath Piersath Bombarded Copy Share Image
Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different,… — Chath Piersath Description Copy Share Image
Even though I'm not privileged in the money world, I'm privileged in other ways: I had greater access to education, I can… — Chath Piersath Access Copy Share Image
Some people have witnessed the killing of their husbands, or they survived other horrific things. My sister is a widow but her… — Chath Piersath Differences Copy Share Image
Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts,… — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who… — Chath Piersath Advantage Copy Share Image
I'm also developing my own narrative, because I'm the son of a widow. And so, while working with women and gathering their… — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and… — Chath Piersath Ability Copy Share Image
I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked,… — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience. — Chath Piersath Connected Copy Share Image
I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own. — Chath Piersath Narrative Copy Share Image
When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. — Chath Piersath Different Copy Share Image
You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have. — Chath Piersath Humanity Copy Share Image
I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and… — Chath Piersath Addiction Copy Share Image
I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log… — Chath Piersath Poetry Copy Share Image
When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements. — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one. — Chath Piersath Loss Copy Share Image
I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself. — Chath Piersath Academic Copy Share Image
It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have… — Chath Piersath Books Copy Share Image
It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over… — Chath Piersath Body Copy Share Image
Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes… — Chath Piersath Art Copy Share Image
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.… — Chath Piersath Advantage Copy Share Image
All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community. — Chath Piersath Community Copy Share Image
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