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2024/11/18

November 18, 2024
A small concrete building in the middle of a grassy meadow. It is either dawn or dusk. The sky is pink, still with stars visible, and the horizon blazes with yellow. The grass is lavender. The building has a large dish antenna sticking off of the roof, and a few other smaller antennas. A doorway and a small window are visible. Both glow with greenish light. The door is ajar. There is a sign to the right of the door, with a triangular warning symbol on it, and indecipherable text below. A person is running away from the building.

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.

2024/10/31

October 31, 2024
A dim, foggy, purple night. Placed in the middle of a meadow is an odd building: a small tower with one glowing, narrow window on the first floor and two tall, arched windows on the second floor. The windows glow green. The second floor of the building is slightly wider than the first. The roof of the building is tapered to a flat deck with a small railing around it. On the right side of the building is a small covered porch with a long staircase. Approaching out of the fog is a vast, lumbering figure with glowing white eyes. The figure appears to be, if not as tall as the building, definitely larger than anybody who lives in it. An enormous orange moon partially covered by clouds hangs in the sky.

2024/10/22

October 22, 2024
A tent is pitched on top of a tenement building. Sitting on the edge of the building, silhouetted against a yellow sky, is a person holding a fishing rod, the hook dangling into empty space. In the background are blurry red outlines of buildings. A hazy sun hangs in the sky. A few birds circle overhead.

2024/10/16

October 16, 2024
The old factory room was dark. Too dark for my liking. Heavy beams and wires dominated the ceiling. The mottled gray concrete walls were covered in dust and grime. Some unnamable object—a large metal cylinder with rusty pipes emerging from it—squatted to my right, in the darkest corner of the room. I trained the blinding white flashlight beam on the dirty wall and started in horror, even though I knew in my bones what I would find: that damned mark. The crude red circle, the smile, an O and X for the eyes, the dripping paint. He had been here, sure enough. He was out there. And tonight, I was sure, another dirty wall somewhere would bear his mark.

2024/09/30

September 30, 2024
A tall, dark house with several windows; too few for a structure like this. All except one are dimly lit. One window blazes with crimson light. The house is framed by an eerie green glow and set against the starry sky.

2024/09/18

September 18, 2024
A weird spherical house with a large circular window and a circular door. On the surface of the house are glowing colored circles, their purpose unclear. Sitting in the open doorway is a cat. The interior of the house glows blue, but no details are visible. It is a deep blue night. The house is surrounded by forest. In the sky are several aircraft, shapes indeterminate, white lights glowing.

2024/09/16

September 16, 2024
A tall, extremely narrow tower on top of a mountain, set against a bright, reddish-yellow sky. The tower has one window at the top, and a doorway with a light over it. A greenish light is visible in the window. There are a few antennae on the roof. Leading away from the doorway is a set of stone steps and a winding path. Behind the tower is the suggestion of another mountain in the distance, with a similar tower sticking up from it. This is rendered in red. A crescent moon is in the sky.

2024/09/12

September 12, 2024
A flat street, several outlines of buildings, and a streetlight sticking up out of the center of the street. The doors and windows look like holes in the buildings, as though the buildings are two-dimensional props. On top of the rightmost building is the silhouette of a water tower and a cat. A person is standing in the arched doorway of the rightmost building. A white sun hangs in the sky. The buildings are dark, navy blue; the sky is a yellowish green.

2024/09/11

September 11, 2024
A blurry, dark city skyline. Rising above it into a blue sky are the white shapes of the twin towers.

2024/08/28

August 28, 2024
The left side of the drawing shows a wall, or the edge of a building, largely in shadow. On the right side is a lighter, open space. A creature with a large, staring eye and a sharp nose is peering around the edge of the building, only its face visible in profile. The outline of a body is roughly spray-painted in white on the building itself, and the creature's face aligns perfectly with the neck on the body. This is a black-and-white drawing that looks as though it was done in charcoal.

2024/08/27

August 27, 2024
A red sky with a tear in it: a blazing white and yellow streak that appears to be a rip in the sky. Below is a small house on supports with a sharp, conical roof. A path winds past the house. Next to the house is what looks like a warning sign with a red triangle on it. The ground is barren, almost volcanic. This is not a good place to be.

2024/08/25

August 25, 2024
A large, engineered structure, somewhere between a building and the detail of a spaceship. It has various facets and panels. It does not look like a recognizable building; more something made out of metal. There are two tall windows on one side, glowing green, and a few windows on another side, reflecting the dark blue of an evening sky. A large door is open on one side, with a gangplank stretching down from it. A person is walking down the gangplank, pushing a suitcase on wheels. This whole thing seems to be positioned on a tarmac. In the background, a blurry large building is visible, antennas on the roof. This is a mostly blue drawing, with the structure being a metallic dark green.

2024/08/24

August 24, 2024
A person wearing a jacket and tie stands to the left inside a giant stone arch. The back wall of the arch is covered with graffiti. The person looks startled and is peering upward. Hovering in the top left of the arch is a blurry, glowing, fluorescent green apparition.

2024/08/22

August 22, 2024
A movable platform, like that a window washer would use, attached to the side of some iron girders; perhaps an unfinished skyscraper. A person is standing on the platform applying a tool that looks like an acetylene torch to a spot on the girder. The white glow reflects off the person. Perched on top of the arm from which the platform is suspended is a large bird. The sun hangs in the yellow sky.

2024/08/21

August 21, 2024
A dim, heavy evening, the air purple with fog and clouds. In the background is the large blurry suggestion of a mountain or perhaps a building. On the right side of the painting, an eerie building. The architecture, from what we can see of it, is indeterminate: an alien blend of brutalist and Gothic. There is a vast yawning mouth of a door with a few round windows above it, suggesting an enormous fish with its mouth open. Red light glows from the interior, spilling out onto the grass in front of it. To the left, approaching the doorway, is a figure riding a hobby horse, as one does not simply walk into Mordor.

2024/08/20

August 20, 2024
A foreboding, heavily clouded sky. Beneath it sits a castle on a hill, a small path running below the castle. There is a suggestion of patches of trees. The castle has a few lit windows, but seems largely abandoned. This is a mostly blue-green painting.

2024/08/16

August 16, 2024
A factory, bristling with smokestacks, that is also a small house. The sky is a heavy, slate gray. Several of the taller smokestacks are pouring smoke into the sky, and have small glowing green lights on them. On the front of the factory is a door and a glowing green window, which, by scale, suggest that the factory is the size of a cottage. Someone is silhouetted in the window, looking out.

2024/08/13

August 13, 2024
A small round building, white, with a pointed dark roof, sits in the middle of a grassy meadow on a clear blue day. It has a red door with two crossed boards on it, like a barn. Below the building, below the earth, is a subterranean room with brick walls. A single torch burns in the gloom. Snaking from behind one of the walls is a giant gray tail.

2024/08/11

August 11, 2024
A tiny house with graffiti on the front, a small door with a warning sign, and a single large window through which can be seen the silhouette of a horned figure. The house is under the arch of a bridge that looks like an aqueduct. Walking across the bridge, above the house, is a billy goat. The sky is the red-orange of sunset.

2024/08/09

August 9, 2024
A huge red tower with hornlike turrets rises from behind two dark hills covered with trees. Cutting between the hills is a small curving road. Most of the hills are in shadow, but the trees at the top are flaming red, caught in red sunlight. The sky is blazing yellow, with no sun visible. Hovering about the tower are small reddish blips that suggest aircraft. Such an infernal vision can only be born of the dismal labors of SATAN, whose awful Clutches know no Bounds.

2024/08/06

August 6, 2024
A lonely, wooded mountaintop under a greenish-yellow sky. Blazing in the top right of the sky is a white dot: not the moon, not the sun, something else. A small gray path winds up the mountain. At the top of the mountain is a crumbling, abandoned radio installation: a small shack and a large dish on a tower. A single bird is in the sky.

2024/07/31

July 31, 2024
A tall, narrow house with an upper story slightly overhanging the front porch and a sharp, sloping roof. A rear window on the first floor is lit with an eerie, greenish light. A tall window on the second floor is also lit with the same light. Framed in the window is a robot, staring out. The top of the roof has several antennas. Sitting on the steps of the front porch is a human figure, partly illuminated by the porch light. The sky is pink, as though the sun is going down or just coming up. The only visible celestial object is a bright white dot, too small to be the moon and too large to be a star.

2024/07/28

July 28, 2024
A tall, narrow building with a pointed roof, about the size and shape of an outhouse. The building is actually a trailer, with a single wheel and a small balcony in the back. It is brown, with orange pinstripes. Most of the side is taken up with two colorful stained glass windows. Above the windows is the Facebook "angry face" emoji. Hanging on the right side of the trailer is a small sign with "Open" in red letters. Inside the trailer is a large shape; a blurry silhouette seen through the glass. The sky and the background are yellow, with the sun hanging high in the sky.

2024/07/23

July 23, 2024
The topmost and second-topmost balconies on a tall apartment block, set against a greenish-yellow sky. On the lower balcony, a person is operating a large black puppet attached to a rickety-looking stick. The puppet looks like a ghost, with a black halo hovering over its head and green eyes. Its arms are upraised. The person is holding the puppet up, so it is directly level with the top balcony, and someone on the top balcony is looking at it, hand out as though in shock.

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.

2024/07/11

July 11, 2024
Three large boulders stacked in a field. Each has a small window in it, suggesting a habitable space. The middle boulder has a person looking at one of the windows, and a small chimney out of which smoke is coming. The top boulder, smaller than the rest, has a perfectly circular window and antennas. The sky is the blazing yellow of sunset. The red sunlight reflects on the grass.

2024/07/09

July 9, 2024
A flat, gray, featureless landscape. Rising out of it is a tall, thin turret of a castle. The turret has one window in the side glowing red. Standing in the turret, waving a large black flag attached to a sword, is a figure wearing a crown. The figure's arms are spread apart as though it is speaking. The flag has indecipherable red marks on it that could be lettering. Coming from the figure's mouth is a giant white speech balloon filled with ugly, misshapen black marks. Figures on the ground are ducking the speech balloon as it hangs directly over their heads, as though it is a physical thing that could fall on them.

2024/06/21

June 21, 2024
Two tall, thin skyscrapers. The one on the left rises up from the ground. The one on the right seems to be dangling down out of the sky, upside-down. Both have only one window at the very top. Below, the sky is blue; above, and to the right, the sky is the pink of sunrise or sunset. The window in the left building is dark; the window in the right building is glowing yellow. A thin staircase connects the two, extending downwards from the left building. On the left, a person sits at the top of the staircase. On the right, a cat is also sitting at the top of the staircase, but upside down, on the underside of the staircase, as though gravity is inverted.

2024/06/06

June 6, 2024
A gray night, with a thin sliver of a hazy moon in the sky. The trunk of a large dead tree stands to the right, with a single branch extending off to the left. Hanging from the branch is a small sign that says "open". At the base of the tree is an arched doorway, casting white light out onto the surrounding meadow. In the top left of the trunk is a small, circular window, with white light beaming from that as well. In the sky above, a large bird can be seen.

2024/06/05

June 5, 2024
A tall, thin, very unfinished skyscraper. Parts of the skyscraper's walls are missing, revealing beams and infrastructure. On the right side of the skyscraper is a small crane, from which is dangling a pallet of building materials. At the very top, a person is sitting on a chair, holding a cup. The sky is the bright yellow of high noon; the sun hangs above the skyscraper.

2024/05/25

May 25, 2024
A dark, gray night. A remote, grassy hill. Rising up from the hill is a small, oddly shaped house, with no windows, a pointed roof, and a doorway like an open mouth. On the side of the house, at the top, is a large white eye. Hanging over the door is a small, glowing sign that says "open". This is a monochrome drawing rendered primarily in gray and black.

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