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2025/03/14

March 14, 2025
A dark, cloudy, city night. The sky is heavily overcast; the whole scene is an oppressive brownish gray. In the foreground, a figure stands on the roof of a building. The figure is in an action pose, as if they're ready to leap into the sky. A low fog surrounds them. They have a Greek letter "pi" on the back of their outfit, and two squarish horns on their head. Hovering in the sky, projected against the clouds, is a ghostly greenish spotlight that also has a Greek letter "pi" at its center. In the distance are other skyscrapers, the windows dimly illuminated in the fog. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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.

2024/09/25

September 25, 2024
A large, arched window that appears to be in an ornate tower, like one you might find on a cathedral. The tower has several gargoyles. In the background is the blurry outline of a city, with a dirigible floating over it in the dirty yellow sky. Standing in the window is a figure wearing a pointed hat and a robe.

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.

2024/04/23

April 23, 2024
A desolate street winds through an abandoned town at night. The road looks bumpy and uneven, and curves among abandoned apartment blocks and a factory with a tall smoke stack. It is mostly dark; the scene is illuminated only by a full moon. The sky looks partly cloudy. In the sky, directly to the right of the moon and a little above it, is a witch on a broomstick.

2024/04/07

April 7, 2024
A surreal, deserted city. A small silhouette of a person is hemmed in by large, blocky buildings that have almost no windows or doors. Behind the person is a blazing sun, a yellow sky, and the blurry silhouette of a building engulfed in sunlight and heat. In front of the person is a cool blue area: another building that seems to be in shadow, with only one illuminated window and an open doorway, casting a greenish white light onto the blue ground. Above the door is a small, neon pink sign that says "open". At the top of the building is a single, illuminated yellow window—the only visible window on the entire building—in which sits a cat.

2023/12/27

December 27, 2023
A hazy, almost ethereal view of a city. Bluish skyscrapers loom out of a low fog in the distance. In the foreground is a dark hill with a small, stubby building perched on it. The hill appears to be covered in foliage or trees. The building has a cluster of antennae sticking up out of it, and two windows on it are lit. The hill and building are a dark blue. Hovering in the distant sky is a blurry oval shape that looks like a flying saucer. The saucer has a blazing white beam of light shining from below like a spotlight, bathing some of the skyscrapers in a white light.

2023/12/09

December 9, 2023
A person stands under a streetlight, holding a phone. The streetlight looks like it may be placed in a city park at night. The scene is rendered in an impressionist style; the light is surrounded by a blast of yellow, neon green, and white. The glow is rendered in thick brushstrokes. Behind the light is the suggestion of a deep blue night, and symmetric rows of lights suggesting buildings. There are a few bright red dots that might be traffic lights or warning lights on buildings. In the top right is a smaller glowing object that could be the moon.

2023/11/25

November 25, 2023
A person, mostly covered by what looks like a popsicle. The person is immersed in a rectangular, semi-translucent block of something: straight sides and a rounded top. The person's arms aren't visible. The person seems to be walking. The drawing is black ink on a neon green background. The light reflecting off the top of the popsicle is white.

2023/11/20

November 20, 2023
A figure stands silhouetted against the sky. In the background is a city skyline of skyscrapers. In the sky, where the sun would be, is a giant black ball, sort of an inverted sun that resembles a black hole or a vortex. The figure, mostly black, has small yellow rectangles on it, suggesting the windows of a skyscraper. Other than those specks of yellow, the drawing is black and indigo ink on a light blue background.

2023/08/21

August 21, 2023
A large person with a shaved head and a suit and tie, apparently walking down a city street at night. Behind them is a streetlight; further behind are the suggestions of skyscrapers. The whole scene is rendered in rough textures and bright red, green, and blue, suggesting a neon woodcut.

2023/07/19

July 19, 2023
A scene through a tall, grimy window with venetian blinds at the top. The window looks out onto two tenement buildings, either next door or across the street. It's night, but not a dark night so much as a dull, cloudy, light-polluted night. The buildings are mostly dark, with no street lights or external illumination visible. There is no moon or stars. A few of the windows in the buildings are dimly lit, suggesting television screens or reading lamps inside. No figures can be seen behind the windows.

2023/07/05

July 5, 2023
Two very tall, very thin, very rickety towers stand side-by-side. They look like skyscrapers, but each has only one window at the very top, and each looks about the width and depth of a closet. In each window sits a person. Farther down, the towers are connected by a small bridge and a slapdash brace of some sort. The towers themselves have flaking plaster and boards fixed to the side, showing serious dilapidation and haphazard attempts at repair. In the background are shadows that suggest there may be other buildings of this sort. In the sky is a hazy sun.

2023/06/12

June 12, 2023
A vast, looming building that looks like a dystopian, amorphous skyscraper: a superstructure from Blade Runner or a similar film. It is mostly windowless, with a few small green lights and lines here and there. At the top of it is a cluster of lines and antennas, some of which have white lights on top of them. In the background are blurry silhouettes of what look like similar buildings. The time of day could be early morning or evening. There are no stars, just a ghost of a greenish cloud overhead.

2023/03/01

March 1, 2023
A set of books on a small shelf in a darkened room. The books are arranged horizontally, as they usually are. The spines, facing the viewer, have brightly lit windows in them, making the books look like those narrow row houses you see in Baltimore.

2022/12/31

December 31, 2022
An unearthly glow hovers over a city celebrating New Year's Eve. On one building, a small figure standing next to some baggage signals what may be a descending spacecraft.

2022/12/24

December 24, 2022
A photo of a destroyed city: ruined, snow-covered shells of buildings. A single candle burns in one window.

2022/09/05

September 5, 2022
A grimy factory with broken windows and graffiti

2022/08/31

August 31, 2022

2022/08/23

August 23, 2022

2022/07/07

July 7, 2022
A small rabbit sits in the doorway of an abandoned building, looking out over an abandoned city

2022/04/26

April 26, 2022
A mythical-looking city with fog and sun

2022/03/31

March 31, 2022
A helicopter flies past skyscrapers in the fog

2022/03/25

March 25, 2022
A plane with contrails flies over a tall building

2022/03/19

March 19, 2022
An empty room with a window and a picture hung on the wall

2022/03/08

March 8, 2022
A darkened street scene, with white light pouring out of one door

2022/01/31

January 31, 2022
The ruins of a city, under an apocalyptically glaring sun

2022/01/29

January 29, 2022
A city with the ruins of a bridge in the foreground

2022/01/09

January 9, 2022
A city on a winter night, seen across a frozen lake
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