Palace of the Divine offers a window into the struggle of feeling trapped within one’s own mind, a sensation familiar to many tortured souls seeking a way out. While not a direct self-portrait, the figure embodies Hannah’s own experiences with navigating internal chaos and the ways psychedelics have served as a tool for expanding consciousness and finding release.

Reclining in serene repose, draped in flowing orange fabric, the central figure radiates both surrender and quiet strength. Encased within the towering arches of a celestial palace (gothic in structure but surreal in atmosphere) she exists in a liminal space between captivity and transcendence. The palace itself, constructed from illusion paper, commands attention, urging contemplation of perception and reality.

The surrounding kaleidoscopic spirals and radiant starbursts evoke the disorienting beauty of altered states, recalling the mind’s journey through psychedelic exploration. The golden, melting edges of the architecture dissolve rigid boundaries, suggesting that divinity and clarity lie not in order, but in the acceptance of fluidity and change.

In Palace of the Divine, Hannah captures the interplay between structure and surrender, reality and hallucination, suffering and escape. The piece becomes an invitation to embrace the unknown, to seek the divine within, and to find solace in the impermanent, ever-shifting nature of existence.