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: unstable identities; figure-ground collapse — three faces rendered with uniform flattening; boundary dissolution between figures and cockpit space

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.

Three figures are arranged across a horizontal interior space — a young fair-haired male at left, an older bearded male at centre pointing toward screen-right, and a darker-haired male at right. The figures are depicted with recognisable specificity, rendered in naturalistic light and shadow, their costumes painted with some attention to colour and texture. The background reads as a cockpit or enclosed interior — angular forms suggesting consoles or viewport — but the spatial recession is shallow and the background elements dissolve into brown-grey paint without resolution. Each face is readable but the paint handling is loose enough that the features carry a quality of partial assembly, the likeness dependent on the viewer's completion of the image.

Materials used:

Oil on loose canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 45.72 x 35.56 x 0.51cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits

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