I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints. 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 writing world moving 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 different interesting When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements. Chath Piersath elements different art There are multiple things entering in your mind. Chath Piersath entering multiple mind Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me. Chath Piersath news may sometimes 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 silence process talking 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 people thinking 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 people world art This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work. Chath Piersath collaboration mary firsts 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 perspective ears thinking 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 perspective struggle writing 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 writing country thinking 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 perspective voice writing If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. Chath Piersath fluent born language 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 language reading 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 want play moving 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 shapes different art You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art]. Chath Piersath mediums different art 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 views writing 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 connections facts people
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