This work finds its title in the famous Jamaican folk song: "Dip dem, Bedward, dip dem / Dip dem in the healing stream. Dip dem deep, but not too deep / Dip dem to cure bad feeling." It commemorates the agency of preacher Alexander Bedward, whose assertion of Blackness was deemed a threat to the establishment.

A scroll twelve feet in length, drawn on black paper — a nod to Paul Bogle's 1865 declaration, "Cleave to the black." Its unfurling format pays homage to Rev Fitz Balintine Pettersburg's 1926 Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy: a stream of consciousness polemic against white colonial power that informed early Rastafari thought, and the blueprint for Howell's book, The Promised Key. The Healing Stream is presented suspended, its narrative visible from both sides.