Healing Interrupted is an interactive installation reminiscent of a Zen dry garden filled with rice instead of sand. People are encouraged to rake through the rice with a wooden Zen garden rake. This practice is traditionally thought of as meditative and healing. This meditative state is interrupted as the rice gives way to flooring covered with recent newspaper clippings of Asian hate actions (collage on canvas). Healing and social progress are interrupted by today’s realities. With this work, I connect my other pieces documenting historical acts of discrimination (World War II incarceration of individuals of Japanese ancestry) with continued acts of racism against Asians today.