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2025/12/06

December 6, 2025
A tree with no leaves on its branches stands in a bright yellow and bluish space. The area is blurry, but gives the impression of a sunny day, and a vast, icy expanse. The tree stands in the middle of this. Hanging from one of its branches, on the right, is a small sign that reads "open" in large, pinkish-white block letters. Below the sign is placed a chair. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/04

October 4, 2025
A spread of photos and papers that look like they're fixed to a gray wall or a bulletin board. It's an eerie collection of items: grainy photos of lights in the sky and a triangular craft; a green X-ray of a head that does not look human; a black and white photo of a mummified head that looks distinctly alien; a sheet with "Evidence" on it in large red letters; another sheet with mimeographed purple writing, an indeterminate diagram, and a red heading of "Top secret"; and an ID badge. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/03

October 3, 2025
A large coat of arms, hanging in a dark blue space. The coat of arms is quarterly per pale and per fess Or and Gules, first and fourth Gules two crowns in fess Or, second and third Azure bendy of six Or; overall ensigned with a crown Or jewelled Gules. That is, it's a shield divided into four quarters. The top left and lower right quadrants are red with two gold crowns; the top right and lower left quadrants are  blue with gold diagonal bars. Above the shield is a heavy gold crown with red jewels. The lower right quadrant, however, has a big chunk hacked out of it, with a small, shadowy, hammer-wielding figure wearing one of the crowns stolen from the shield. There's no blazon terminology for this. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/02

September 2, 2025
A gray sky; a gray meadow; a gray world. Walking through the meadow is a dark figure carrying a very large portrait. Most of the figure is concealed behind the portrait, which shows a painted head in profile on a white canvas. The head has a cold, impersonal expression, and is rendered in broad, thick brushstrokes of red, gray, and black. Looking a little closer, one notices that the figure seems to be blended into the canvas, as though the head on the painting is the head of the figure carrying the painting. One of the figure's arms is dimly visible through the white canvas. The painting containing the painting—that is, the work you are looking at; the meta-painting, if you will—is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/12

August 12, 2025
A strange figure that appears to be wearing some sort of cloak or blanket. Only its legs are visible; the rest of it is covered by lumpy, clothlike material. The back of it is illuminated by a bright pink light, while the front of it is illuminated by a bioluminescent green light. Where its face would be is a round, glassy mask like that on a diver's helmet. No facial features are visible. The figure stands against a yellow-gold background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/14

July 14, 2025
A silhouette of a figure stands atop a large blue rectangular stone, holding a shield and a hobbyhorse. The shield features a yellow cross on a blue background. The background consists of a bright green-yellow. The stone has a large carved eye, oriented up and to the right towards the figure, and also displays some colored markings, suggesting a surface with graffiti or carvings. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

2025/07/06

July 6, 2025
A short, slightly thick, dark purple test tube floats in a greenish space. The lower half of it is filled with a dark liquid. Sitting at the very bottom of it, under the liquid, is a small green figure playing a long horn. Bubbles float up from the horn. Green steam drifts from the top of the test tube. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/10

May 10, 2025
A painter stands in front of a large canvas propped on an easel. The canvas looms over the painter. On the canvas is a painting of a blobby figure with two round googly eyes and a mouth that looks like an upside-down white crescent. The figure is rendered is an array of blazing rainbow colors. The artist is holding a can of spray paint and spraying the canvas. The artist's head is a bright crimson. The background is a red-orange. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2024/12/28

December 28, 2024
An abstract, impressionist painting with long, wavy brushstrokes. At the center of the painting is an elongated, slightly curved object painted in bright pink, yellow, and various shades of green. The right side of it is brightly illuminated, giving the impression that it is dimensional. It is surrounded by blue. The overall effect is of a multicolored bubble rising up through water.

2024/04/04

April 4, 2024
A tall, glowing white figure stands astride the curved horizon of a dark planet, reaching over to touch hands with another glowing white figure, this one slightly smaller, on the other side of the planet. There is an eerie green auroral glow on the horizon. Above, many green-tailed meteors hurtle through a starry sky. Anyone who remembers browsing the web in the late 1990s might be reminded of something.

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2024/03/26

March 26, 2024
A person and a cat stand together on a dark surface, silhouetted in front of a dark gray background. It's unclear whether this is a wall or simply empty space. A white full moon hangs in the top left. Both the person and the cat appear to be painting; the person's right hand is up, the cat's left paw is up, and blazing rainbow colors are streaming from them, dripping down the gray space as though made of runny neon paint. Both the person and the cat have rainbow light reflecting off them, suggesting that the colors are actually glowing.

2023/09/07

September 7, 2023
A pink blob that looks, vulgarly put, like a blob of chewing gum that someone stepped on. Embedded in the blob are two googly eyes, like those from a craft store; a gold star sticker; and a rainbow sticker that looks almost like a smile.

2023/08/10

August 10, 2023
A ludicrous, vaguely tree-shaped structure: a narrow, trunklike base supporting a large, misshapen object with circular crimson windows scattered about it. This is a building, if a building looked somewhere between an alien machine part and an asteroid. Dangling and protruding from various points on the structure are vinelike plants and twigs. In the one rectangular window on this thing stands the shadowy silhouette of a person. This building is planted on a grassy hill.

2023/07/29

July 29, 2023
A figure stands on a mountain. Hovering over the mountain is a white, abstract, rectangular shape. It has various folds and contours, but it's not cloth. It's the size of a building; about three times taller than the figure staring at it. The lower edge of it is faded, as if obscured by fog. In the top right corner is a circular indentation whose purpose is unclear: could be a knob, a bolt, even an eye. The sky is otherwise clear except for a few wispy clouds.

2023/03/29

March 29, 2023
A person stands in a dark space, holding a huge amorphous speech balloon filled with bizarre, alien lettering in red-crimson. The person is holding it like a literal balloon, grasping the tail of the speech balloon.

2023/01/22

January 22, 2023
A bridge constructed in a way that would not be physically possible in the real world stands under a full moon

2023/01/18

January 18, 2023
Three eyes set on a vertical rectangle, sort of like the world's most cursed traffic signal

2022/05/20

May 20, 2022
A green, polished abstract blob of something. I don't know, I've never really liked this one.

2022/05/14

May 14, 2022
An abstract sketch of some geometric, textured objects

2022/05/01

May 1, 2022
An odd, indeterminate device

2022/04/28

April 28, 2022
A carved 3D chunk

2022/04/21

April 21, 2022
A chunk of some indeterminate machine part

2022/04/17

April 17, 2022
A carved 3D surface

2022/04/12

April 12, 2022
A precisely geometrical sketch of a face with exposed teeth

2022/04/10

April 10, 2022
An abstract 3D surface

2022/04/07

April 7, 2022
An abstract, sharply geometrical sketch of a face

2022/04/06

April 6, 2022
An abstract, sharply geometrical sketch of a face

2022/04/04

April 4, 2022
An abstract, three-dimensional design

2022/01/11

January 11, 2022
An abstract 3D object that looks vaguely like Kokopelli
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