Performance Work

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I am on a journey with my performance work. All my life, I’ve been a visual artist, a doodler and daydreamer caught between worlds. In college, I studied graphic design and dabbled in photography and painting. Post-college, I discovered spoken word because I felt compelled to tell my story. Performing my words not only changed but also saved my life. I’ve recently gotten into video and the use of multi-media in performance work. I’m fascinated by performance art, inspired by installation art and constantly provoked by the media. Now, I’m simply trying to find junctures. My work reflects a hybrid cultural experience as a refugee from Cambodia trying to understand what home means, as a loud feminist woman of color learning to love and be loved, as an American citizen with Asian features too often accused of “being a foreigner”, as a Muslim woman in America on a spiritual quest, as a citizen critical of our government, as a survivor of war, and as an individual striving to find the artistic, spiritual, and political junctures of these identities. The world keeps changing. I keep responding. Loud. Brown. Proud.