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2026/03/17

March 17, 2026
A full white moon sits in a cloudy night sky. The shadows on the moon are in the form of an eerie smiley-face. The clouds in the sky are in long rows and reflect the moonlight. Below is a dark patch of several pine trees. Walking among the trees is a glowing greenish-white figure. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/03/02

March 2, 2026
A vast, green meadow with small white and yellow flowers dotting it. In the background is a row of trees. In the far distance is a bluish mountain. High in the cloudless sky are two white birds and someone piloting a brightly colored rainbow hang glider. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

2026/02/27

February 27, 2026
A dull blue hallway with a door. Over the door is an arched transom. To the left of the door is a blurry collage of sheets of paper: the sort of chaotic collection of posters, flyers, and detritus that you'd see accumulate in a public area. Above the doorway are several thick pipes. A spherical white light is hanging from one of them, although it is off. Visible in the dark doorway is a slightly hunched, ghostly greenish figure. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/02/26

February 26, 2026
A lighthouse at the edge of a rocky shore at dusk. The lighthouse is small and dark-colored, with a single dark window in its side. The sky is a bluish-purple; a crescent moon is in the upper right of the sky. The lighthouse appears abandoned. The beacon housing, a dull glassy green, is not lit inside. The base of the lighthouse is covered in faded graffiti. Nevertheless, there is one resident, and possibly a permanent one: a white figure on the balcony encircling the beacon housing. The figure has one arm outstretched, releasing a large black bird into the night. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/02/20

February 20, 2026
A room that looks like it may have belonged to a child at one point. It appears abandoned now: almost nothing hanging on the walls, and no toys on the floor. There's a white dresser with two pink drawers, and a few books and a red clock on top of it. The drawers have a few random stickers: stars, a smiley-face. The wall is bright yellow, with long shadows suggesting it is drenched with sunlight. The dresser casts a long, greenish shadow as well. There are a few faded patches where pictures once hung. Still taped to the wall are two rough, crayon drawings of a face and a tree. Also drawn on the wall are some red sketches that do not look like they were drawn by a child: several running animals and figures with bows and arrows that look like those seen in cave paintings. The floor is a light tan color. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/02/09

February 9, 2026
A smoggy gray day, with a dim white sun high in the sky. A dark, dully colored figure with a clock key sticking out of its back is drinking from a hose that comes from something that resembles a gas pump: a structure with a small green glowing screen and a circular sign sticking out of the top. The sign has a red triangle on it. The pump itself has a few red stripes, as does the hose. The entire scene is slightly foggy and washed out. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/02/08

February 8, 2026
A drab, gray basement room. Heavy pipes hang from the ceiling. There is little to look at in this place: a white analog clock, a heavy gray door in the wall, the left edge of a bulletin board to the right of it. Under the pipes, a ghostly white figure holds a mop, sweeping a polished dark floor. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/18

January 18, 2026
A dark, slightly tarnished sphere hangs in a blue vacuum. On the yellowish underside of the sphere is carved a simple smiley-face smile and eyes. The underside has a tinge of yellow light to it. Sitting on top of the sphere is a small, blocky building with large windows glowing white, and a red neon border around the roof. Sticking up from it is a large sign that says "DINER" in pink neon lettering, bordered by white and yellow bulbs. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/12

January 12, 2026
A figure stands on a craggy point overlooking the ocean, one hand on its hip. The sky is the deep blue of a cloudy late evening or early morning. The figure is wearing a dark coat, and has a traffic signal for a head. The yellow light is illuminated, casting a dim yellowish tinge on the rock in front of it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/11

January 11, 2026
A person walks in a gray, featureless space, holding a small dark blue-gray cloud on a string as though it's a balloon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/07

January 7, 2026
A dark figure seen in profile walks in a dark space, the ground covered with slight grayish fog. The figure has a clock's windup key sticking out of its back. It is surrounded by those round "battery life" graphs that should be a familiar sight to anyone on iOS: gray circles with the level of charge indicated by how much of the circle's perimeter is colored. All of the graphs seen here indicate low battery life, and the white icons inside indicate different aspects of life: health, sleep, happiness, activity. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/12/25

December 25, 2025
A desolate scene: Jesus, in a white robe and halo, sits in an armchair in a darkened apartment lit only by the white glare of a flatscreen television. The entire scene is a dull bluish-green. Hanging on the wall above are the letters “Happy Birthday”, and a few stars, all of which have the effect of making the scene appear even less festive than it would be without these decorations. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/10/02

October 2, 2025
A glowing white figure on a dark background gathers together many colored threads. The figure has long arms and fingers that seem to act as a loom. Falling from its hands is a long, woven, greenish-yellow bolt of cloth. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/30

April 30, 2025
A human figure stands in a dark space, one arm forwards. The figure is various colors: yellow, bright blue, neon green. The front of the figure is glowing white. The end of its extended arm blazes with white light, as though it is welding something with pure energy. The space around it is various shades of darker blue and purple. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/18

March 18, 2025
A dull, cloudy evening: The sky is a greenish blue and foggy. In the foreground is the large silhouette of a dark house with no lights on anywhere. The house is seen in profile, a porch on the right side. In the distance, dimly visible in the fog, is the outline of another house, this one with a single window glowing yellow in the upper story. On the roof of the first house sits a lone figure, shining a flashlight off into the fog. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2024/12/21

December 21, 2024
A dark space. A single light hangs from the top, casting a lurid blue conical glow like a spotlight. Standing under it is a dark silhouetted figure holding a black umbrella, as though trying to ward off the light like rain.

2024/12/02

December 2, 2024
A small, gray room that looks like it may be stone or concrete. In the upper left is an open, arched window, blazing with sunlight. Beams of sunlight slant through the window, angled down and to the right. The overall sense of the place suggests a cell in a monastery. Sitting on the ground in the sunlight, staring into a phone, is a bland, humanoid figure that looks like it's roughly made of brownish clay. The phone is casting a greenish light on its face. To the left of the figure, on the wall, is an electrical outlet. In the top right is a clock reading 9:41.

2024/11/06

November 6, 2024
A small building with a tall clocktower, a narrow arched doorway, and a narrow arched window. The building is on top of a grassy hill of greenish-brown. Behind it are orange hills that suggest fall foliage. The sky is a golden yellow, and sunlight blazes behind the building. A single bird circles in the sky.

2024/11/02

November 2, 2024
A large dark green metal sphere floats like a balloon in a blue-green sky. The balloon has a cable fixed to it below, and is haphazardly bolted together from various metal plates. Two small pipes are sticking off of it on the lower right. Sitting on top is a person in a chair, holding a telescope up to their eye. The telescope is trained on a bright round object in the distant sky.

2024/10/17

October 17, 2024
A black-robed monk stands in a spare stone room defined by a stone arch. The room has a single arched window. The monk is standing at a brown wooden podium on which is a white book. The monk is writing in the book with a white quill pen. In front of the podium is a square pot in which is planted a small, blue-trunked tree with white leaves or flowers.

2024/09/29

September 29, 2024
A featureless gray background. Looming in the background is the dark blurry figure of a person. In front of it stands a much smaller, white human figure, one arm raised towards the glowing halo above its head, as though it is putting on the halo or positioning it. It is unclear whether the huge figure in the background is a shadow cast by the smaller person, or whether it's a separate identity.

2024/09/19

September 19, 2024
A dingy gray basement room, all concrete walls and sharp angles. Pipes run along the walls and across the ceiling. The room is oddly shaped, with various overhangs and a raised area that suggests a loading dock. There is a single dim white light that only emphasizes the darkness. Dominating the scene is a large display of six glowing red numbers, the kind you'd see on a clock radio. Ominously, this appears to display a countdown, with three seconds remaining. Below it sits a person tapping away at a laptop, staring at the white glow of the screen.

2024/08/08

August 8, 2024
A human face in profile, facing right. The face appears to be carved out of stone: smooth dark surface, a few cracks and chips here and there. The eye is a round porthole-style window, glowing fluorescent green. A small figure inside is pressed up against the window, looking out, hands against the glass.

2024/08/02

August 2, 2024
A monochrome painting of a person wearing a black coat and fedora. The person has a white face and is looking over their shoulder at the viewer. They are holding a staff flaming like a torch at the top end. There is a clock key sticking out of their back, as though they are a windup toy. A white halo hovers over their head.

2024/07/30

July 30, 2024
A person sits on a dark, planetlike sphere hanging in a blue, starry sky. The sphere is about the size of a small house relative to the person. The person is sitting at a small round cafe table, illuminated by a ceiling lamp hanging from above. What the lamp is attached to is not clear. In the sky to the right is a crescent moon.

2024/07/29

July 29, 2024
A large field under a hot yellow afternoon sky. The field has tall grass with a suggestion of woods in the background, and small white and yellow flowers about. Standing in the middle of the field is a person with their left hand on their hip, a phone in their right hand. In the sky is a cloud shaped like the "typing" bubble on iOS Messages, partially obscuring the sun.

2024/07/21

July 21, 2024
A person sits alone on a park bench on a small hill, looking at what is either a sunrise or a sunset. The sky is pink fading to blazing yellow. A single bird wheels in the sky.

2024/07/18

July 18, 2024
A craggy mountain peak set against a blue sky with white clouds. Descending from the sky onto the peak is a person holding a red umbrella and a suitcase. The person does not have any visible means of flying in the air, other than the umbrella, which might be a parachute or even some magical device, similar to the umbrella carried by Mary Poppins. A few birds circle in the sky.

2024/07/12

July 12, 2024
A rust-colored abandoned bunker at the top of what appears to be a hill. The bunker has a large porch area, with the upper floor overhanging it. There is an empty window on the side. The top of the bunker is rounded, like those old metal Airstream trailers. The base is covered with faded graffiti. The grass on the hill itself is brown, the same color as the building. The sky is an eerie blend of yellow and bright green. There are no signs of life anywhere.

2024/07/10

July 10, 2024
A solitary figure sits on a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere. The vast hull of a ship looming over the rock suggests that "nowhere" is the middle of the ocean. The ship, which looks like an ocean liner, is anchored to the rock by a cable tied to a small post. The sky is blazing yellow; the sun is high. The surface of the ocean fades into the horizon. This is a place that does not appear on any map.

2024/07/07

July 7, 2024
A small boat—a plastic purple canoe with a triangular rainbow sail attached—sits on top of a rock. It would appear to be marooned, if not for the fact that it is perfectly balanced, and there is a white mailbox with a red door on the right side of the rock. A person sits in the right side of the canoe in front of a laptop. White birds circle in the blue sky overhead. Seaweed hangs from the underside of the canoe.

2024/06/23

June 23, 2024
A gray, cloudy night. A figure stands on a small soapbox in the middle of nowhere, the pose suggesting that they are giving a speech. Their left arm is extremely long and curved and they are holding a flashlight above their head, shining a dull gold beam down as though it's a spotlight. The beam of the light tapers off into haziness, suggesting fog.

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