This site is under construction.

Thanks for your patience!

I will slowly be customizing this site, for example, changing the fonts frequently. The all caps was hurting everyone’s eyes. I’m not crazy about this one but it fits it as best as my eyes could go through all the options this site is giving me.

I just added the Naga Queen to our Artworks page. It will probably be labeled Ceramics Portfolio in the future, or something of the sort. It’s been really hard getting my act together the last few weeks, having to care for my mom after her emergency room visit. She’s getting to stay home for 6 weeks. It’s too bad I had to cancel her plane ticket, she was going to go to a work trip with me and reunite with her friends, from the refugee, camps she hasn’t seen in 30 years. I wouldn’t have known if I didn't tell her I’d be out of town, that she has a friend she hasn’t seen in 30 years. I guess that’s how busy and unluxurious life is sometimes when you start from nothing. Now I know I should work toward affording her a life where she can see her long distance friends at least once every 5 or 10 years.

In other news, I have just been rejected from 1 art exhibition about reconnecting with our ancestral land/countries and 1 emerging artist ceramics program for BIPOC. I’m not very sad as I knew I wouldn’t be good at this off the cuff. I’m a little disappointed as I asked them for feedback but they did not give any— Which is… If I were them I wouldn’t either, immediately. Having read for scholarship and niche job applications, it’s a lot of work. lol. bless them. I hope I’m more qualified in the future.

I like listing my failures/rejections because the list is much much much much longer than the list of awards and recognitions. Even my CV is a bit of a stretch to be honest, but that’s why CV’s are CV’s and not resumes.

If you’re one of my little buddies out there applying to be parts of worlds you’ve never touch base with, I hope you know it’s not ideal but it’s not devastating either. Keep going! Your people will find you. And try to be aware of the red flags. Don’t just accept the first thing that accepts you— you might end up in some precarious situations!

It’s April! Happy Spring Equinox and Cambodian, Lao, Thai New year!