Louis Wain's Cats
I do not know why I did not see like this. I think I should have.
I do not see the patterns when my eyes are open. Or auras.
As a matter of fact, until I was 40, I had perfect vision.
I decorate my house with a lot of intricate geometric patterns though.
There aren't any pictures of him when he was older. I can't read his face.
But he had a cleft palate at birth... that's a wee bit of facial distortion...
There is a controversy over whether these variations represent a progression of worsening mental illness. Nobody knows the order they were painted.
But this is irrelevant because the symptoms flare up with tooth infections and subside when they do too... so the progression may not be linear.