As an art school senior, my final projects shifted to accommodate the new normal of quarantine. ZEN, the final for my immersive experience lab, began as a project idea I would have liked to do in person which I then transferred to a remote format. The experience includes three main components; a makeshift top-down filming rig for an iPad, a 31"x31" sand garden, and the video conferencing application Zoom. I wanted to create an experience that addresses how people are currently dealing with anxiety or sadness by finding distractions online, so the zen garden builds on that by allowing the audience to vicariously have a meditative experience as they control someone raking sand on the other side of a zoom call. While perhaps a little dystopian in the implication that everyone relies solely on the internet for stress relief, it gives the participants a sense of control which can be very therapeutic when so many things are out of individual control. The experience begins with the opening text in the Soom chatbox (seen above) introducing the participants to ZEN. Participants use the chatbox to direct how I rake the sand, creating a collaborative pattern. When all of the sand is raked, "ZEN is complete" appears in the chatbox.