Mourning rituals continue to be expressed through varied creative practices in migratory and transnationalist spaces. These rituals attempt through creative practices to commemorate, narrate and reclaim a history, celebrate a community, provide a methodology for resistance, healing, as well as survival. My art installation, film, photography and written work are in dialogue with these multiple cultural iterations of ritual that through varied and complex aesthetics and creative practices weave together a collective history of trauma. I intend to invoke a space for a transformative lens that explores the intersections of memory, ritual, and creative expressions and their role in engendering a politic of survival and resistance. I began my reconstruction of the sacred by conceptually, visually and materially constructing a journey into 'Ashura as ritual and art. The art installation is a material translation, an interpretive conceptual and creative expression of displacement, memory, narrative, and cultural recovery through the prism of the sacred. The photographs and installations function as portals carrying bits and pieces of memories and narratives, to serve the purpose of personal and collective archives (my own and that of the women). The creative practice of constructing the exhibit (as a place for recovery and a material tool for resistance) is my attempt at reinterpreting and preserving a marginalized (that of Iraqi, Shi'a women and my own) culture and history from oblivion due to state oppression, wars, as well as neo-colonial and imperial projects which have resulted in the mass exodus of millions of Iraqis into the diasporas.