Artist

Since Feb. 2010

ARTIST

... a WANNABE ARTIST ! The next best thing... befriend these creative individuals.

I wish I had kept up my dancing... from New Year's celebration in Long Beach, 2010. More beautiful photos by Kimsua Chay...

I am a huge fan of Cambodian artists and envy the talents and creativity of Leang Seckon, Sopheap Pich, Reahu, Chhim Sothy, Chath pier Sath, Sacrava, etc. My brother Daravuth is not bad either. And the honorary Khmer, John Weeks, is illustrating tirelessly to educate the young using comics. On the vocal front, who can compare with the legendary Sin Sisamouth, Cambodian-American Aretha Franklin Bochan Huy, jazz musician Prince Norodom Sirivudh, lyricist/singer Prince Sisowath Panara, tenor Khuon Sethisak, rapper praCh Ly, Dengue Fever...And dance, who can break a move like K.K. (Tuy Sobil) and his breaking dancing club Tiny Toones?! And need I say much about the award-winning filmmaker Rithy Panh and his talented niece Bosba Panh?!

Theary Seng with John Pirozzi, Scott Stafford and Touch Chetha at CLA Studio, 14 April 2010
Theary Seng with the incredible cinematographer/director/producer and friend John Pirozzi, musician Scot Stafford, Touch Chetha of the popular hard rock band Dra Kha of the 1960s-70s at Studio CLA (Cambodian Living Arts) for last minute interviews on the making of Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll, a labor of love 5 years in the making expanding the globe and interviews with Cambodian royalty (Prince Sirivudh, Prince Panara, scholars/diplomats (Son Soubert, David Chandler, former Ambassador John Gunther Dean) and musicians/actors (Dy Saveth, Dengue Fever) - a brilliant film painting a different image of Cambodia not yet known to the world !! (Phnom Penh, 14 April 2010)

Dengue Fever of Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, directed by John Pirozzi; a great documentary (certain scenes filmed from my balcony on the riverfront during the Water Festival) I was fortunate to see when premiered in 9 Nov. 2007 at the Museum of Natural History in New York City (Photo: New York Times)

Cambodian Artists

The View - sensual apsara by controversial REAHU (also this site's excellent webmaster and Theary Seng's IT tutor).

Sopheap Pich's world famous installation.

Artist/Singer Leang Seckon (especially of the Rubbish Project), Fleur and Theary Seng at the Cambodia International Film Festival, 28 Jan. 2010.

Supreme ballerina Princess Bopha Devi, captured above in artwork by Leang Seckon (always prominent in my apartment); below in the famous photograph.

Young artist Chea Vuthea showing off his drawings with amazing likeness to the photos I've given him! Please contact Ms. Sivnin EAM if you'd like to have Vuthea draw from your photos. More images...

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Linda Saphan is a talented, brilliant friend, not to also mention a new mother and married to the very cool filmmaker John Pirozzi.

Talented photographer Heng Sinith whistling at Bona's Memphis Pub (Phnom Penh, Oct. 2005).

The amazing, sultry voice of Cambodian-American Bochan Huy breaking into mainstream American music scene.

The inspirational Cambodian-American rapper praCh Ly and dear friend (Photo: Stephen Carr/Press Telegram); 2 Emmy wins for RESIDUE (Photo: praCh; San Diego, 26 June 2010)

Legendary Quincy Jones, tenor Khuon Sethisak, Theary Seng at DCM Mark Storella's residence (Phnom Penh, 2005).

Anne Bass and Sokvannara "Sy" Sar (Vanity Fair article/photos). I was mesmerized at his performance at Chaktomuk Theatre as part of the new US Embassy inauguration week in 2005 as well as the documentary film premiering at the French Cultural Center.

MORE PHOTOS OF CAMBODIAN ARTISTS . . .
Non-Cambodian Artists

German film director Detlev Buck and Theary Seng at the after-party of Same Same But Different premiere (The Chinese House, 19 Dec. 2009).

In front of CINE LUX where SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT had its Cambodia premiere. Sok Leang, Theary Seng, producer Claus Boje, production designer Udo Kramer, Uncle Ani Seng from Toulouse, Daravuth Seng. (19 Dec. 2009, photo by Jenny Bombasaro-Brady).

Theary Seng enjoying dinner at a Phnom Penh beer garden with SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT crew (Marc Eberle, director Detlev Buck, producer Claus Boje, actor David Kross, etc.) and Marie Naumann of Jewish Museum (Berlin), a few days after premiere, 22 Dec. 2009.

Legendary actress Mia Farrow (Dream for Darfur) and Theary Seng greeting over 150 bulky armed military police with bouquets of lotus flowers as a crowd of journalists and Cambodian human rights community look on (at entrance to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Jan. 2008).

Amazing singer and humanitarian, U2's Bono, and Theary Seng at press conference prior to P-8 Rock Concert (Rostock, Germany, June 2007).

The very talented and well-read Matt Dillon, Theary Seng, Michael Hayes and the all too-young staff of Ponlork Restaurant (Phnom Penh, Sept. 2007).
Theary Seng's Calligraphy

My strand of claim to being an artist is my calligraphy of millennium ago.

The wannabe artist escapes often to Hotel Le Royal for receptions/meetings and the Elephant Bar, when Cambodia becomes too insane, to contemplate why she didn't take up the life of a calligrapher or a contemplative in South Africa's Drakensberg. (Dec. 2009, Roland Neveu).