The path is already there. We just have to follow the threads.

The Threaded Path was born from a personal question: how do we make sense of the histories we inherit, and what do we choose to create from them? In 2025, while participating in the Acts of Memory initiative, a global commemoration marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh, I witnessed artists across the globe engaging in acts of remembrance, creativity, and collective transformation. What struck me was not only the power of those encounters, but the need for a sustained dialogue across generations, geographies, and disciplines about who we are becoming.

I believe identity is not fixed. It is continually shaped by memory, culture, migration, loss, imagination, and the stories we tell about ourselves. Healing is not a destination but an ongoing process of stitching together the fragments of personal and collective experience.

Artists play a unique role in that process. They are not only creators, but carriers of memory, custodians of culture, and architects of new possibilities. Through their work, they help communities remember, repair, and reimagine.

The name of the podcast is rooted in my mother's story. Before I was born, she followed strips of cloth tied to branches and wooden posts by strangers making their way through the Cambodian borderlands. Those threads marked the safe path through a landscape scattered with landmines and ultimately led her to a refugee camp in Thailand, where I was born. Years later, that image returned to me as a powerful metaphor: we all inherit threads from those who came before us. The question is how we follow them, how we mend them, and how we weave them into the stories that come next.