This painting holds the exact moment everything changes. The moment the fabric of the familiar splits open and something ancient, curious, and unmistakably you peers through.

At the centre, the rainbow-lit cosmic eye represents the first realisation that awareness is far vaster than the stories we live inside. The three fingers reaching through the tear in the star-filled universe aren’t an intruder; they’re an emergence. A part of the self finally brave enough to look beyond the matrix of suffering and glimpse the infinite truth behind it.

The black of space dissolves into a living lattice of sacred geometry. Rainbow light weaves through and around it like currents of intelligence, suggesting that consciousness isn’t linear or local — it’s expansive, interconnected, and always inviting us deeper.

Breakthrough is the moment of awakening many experience through DMT or sacred plant medicine: that first breath of freedom when the veil lifts, the illusion cracks, and a wider reality pours in. It marks the instant of recognition — the soul touching its own boundless nature.

With reverence,
Steph-Anise Leader