I Can Be by Ryan Louder

I Can Be
Oil on canvas board, 50 x 50 cm.

Three words that arrive in a waking dream state carry a weight that three waking words rarely do. This painting holds that feeling - the possibility of the self that surfaces in the space between sleep and consciousness, where ordinary limits dissolve and the mind shows you something closer to what it actually believes.

Painted in oil on a 50 x 50 cm canvas board with an immediacy that preserves the emotional truth of the original vision.

Ryan Louder is a London-based painter with a clinically verified neurological condition - narcolepsy with non-REM intrusion - that causes waking dream states in which vivid, fully-formed visions are experienced while conscious. These paintings are not imagined; they are observed and recorded in real time as each vision unfolds. Every work carries a provenance that is medically documented and historically rare: the direct visual testimony of a dreaming, waking mind.

Original oil painting. One of a kind. Certificate of authenticity included.