Signal Rating: 5/10 — Moderate
Classification: Dissociative

This painting by Ryan Louder is part of a body of work shaped by his neurological condition — Narcolepsy with REM Intrusion Hallucinations, clinically confirmed via MSLT at Guy's Hospital, London. The work contains dissociative imagery — boundary dissolution, figure-ground collapse, and spatial incoherence consistent with REM intrusion.

Neuroaesthetic markers identified: The chromatic key is hyperbolically acidic — yellows and greens that do not occur in London daylight even on the brightest morning; this chromatic exaggeration is a marker of the way the dissociating perceptual system over-saturates familiar scenes; the cyclist figure at centre is dark against the luminous ground, a silhouette without individuating features; the spatial recession is compressed, everything pushed to a single plane; the rain-wet surfaces create a doubling of all objects in reflection, dissociating the scene into two overlapping realities

These markers are not deliberate artistic techniques but direct visual recordings of what REM intrusion hallucinations look like. The imagery emerges from neurological experience, not metaphor. Ryan has painted over 2,000 works, with over 1,000 originals sold. Each painting in this collection has been subjected to neuroaesthetic forensic analysis to identify and catalogue the perceptual phenomena present.

Two figures stand beneath a single blue umbrella on a wet pavement outside a shop front, its interior reflected as white and rust-red in the glass. The right figure holds the umbrella, face partially turned; the left figure wears a pale blue-white garment and stands slightly apart. The wet ground between and below them reflects both in broken teal-green marks that distort rather than accurately mirror, as if the reflections are running. The shop front's framing is colour rather than structure. The umbrella reads as a legible object; the figures below are less resolved — particularly from the waist down, where legs and reflections become the same material.

Materials used:

Oil on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 30.48 x 40.64 x 2.54cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: People and portraits

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