“Through a cultural viewpoint on a hyphenated identity, I examine ways of displaying relationships between spaces. My studio and material-based research reveal my personal experience as a Hindu Canadian. I produce paintings, mixed media, and installation artworks using materiality, artist techniques, and experimental processes. As I address themes of cultural hybridity, movement, displacement, and memory, I develop new ways of representing the social institutions, achievements, spiritual symbols, and traditions that epitomize South Asian and Canadian cultures. In my paintings, I reference nature and spiritual objects. The sacred threads and their intertwining nature act as a metaphor for my dual identity. Using natural elements and a variety of flora has been a healing source for me; they have helped to challenge the cultural disruption I have experienced throughout my life. Flowers like the marigolds are used in traditional floral garlands in Indian rituals. They can differ in size and colours, having multi-layered identities and these variations continue to captivate me as a motif for my paintings. I express a conflict of feelings through colour and materiality to create environments that will encourage healing. Mandalas are discussed and used in Eastern and Western practices, and I use them to explore intersecting ideas about the mandala in Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist cultures. I examine how the materiality of salt can be used to accentuate spirituality and convey a sense of displacement within my cultural experiences. The autoethnographic research approach I used addresses hybrid cultural identity as a language to communicate the aesthetics of material, in combination with spiritual and meditative practices. I highlight the space between what is tangible and what is a distant memory, integrating two diametrically opposed cultures to embrace the contrasts of my identities. ”