in 2002, he returned to cambodia, to the same place he had evacuated from in formative years because of the refugee crisis. pich's trip back home renewed and reunited him with his cultural identity, which impacts his artwork. he uses local material mostly found in cambodia, for example, bamboo. pich creates a wide range of different of works from sculptures to paints. his sculptures are usually quite large, and some are high enough to touch the top of an art gallery's ceiling. many of his first creations were destroyed and recycled because there was no place to store them. he has many of the only rare photographs of this first works.