Horse In On by Ryan Louder

Signal Rating: 7/10 — Significant
Classification: Hallucinatory

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 hallucinatory imagery — geometric form constants, phosphene-like patterns, and perceptual structures consistent with REM intrusion.

Neuroaesthetic markers identified: self-luminous forms; chimeric fusion; boundary dissolution; figure-ground collapse; unstable identities

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.

The horse's head and neck occupy the right half of the picture plane in profile, facing left. The form is constituted entirely from a dense web of looping scribbling ink lines — no outline drawn and filled, but the animal's shape built from accumulated marks that are denser at the mane and more scattered toward the edges where the form thins. The eye is a slightly denser convergence of marks rather than a described circle. The background is untouched white paper. The mane reads as a particularly energetic zone, the looping lines there abandoning anatomical specificity for pure mark-energy. The horse is recognisable but perpetually on the threshold of dissolving back into the scribble field from which it is made.