Quotes from Chath Piersath

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

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.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.

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.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

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

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

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.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

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

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

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

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.