Born in a refugee camp on the Cambodia-Thailand border and raised in Mississippi, I make work to process the struggle to recall fleeting memories of my past and feelings of displacement. Exploring ideas of home and the reverie of time in embroidered paintings, drawings and large-scale installation of abstract landscapes, my artistic practice serves as an exercise in recovering forgotten moments, expressing my identity and articulating the longing for home and community.

My work seeks to simulate the impermanence of memory, the fleetingness of its existence, creating forms that translate the mind’s formless but living past into physical material and sensation and transforming space that poetically simulates a timeless place for recollection and dreams.