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2024/03/23

March 23, 2024
A river winds through a flat meadow with trees on the horizon. Above is a vast, open sky, covered with banded clouds. In the top left of the sky is a black hot-air balloon.

2024/02/21

February 21, 2024
A heavily wooded black skyline, with a small road cutting through it. It's either sunrise or sunset, and the horizon is a blazing red, giving way to heavy slate-gray clouds. Hanging in the sky above the trees is a small dirigible, reflecting the red glow. There is a small, glowing green light on its top tailfin, and a red light on the basket.

2024/02/14

February 14, 2024
A high cliff, somewhere in the desert. It's a gray day, the clouds heavy in the sky. Gathered at the edge of the cliff are two people, with a third running towards them. Directly above them, relatively close to the ground, is flying a very futuristic, triangular aircraft. Visible in the background is the blurry outline of another natural formation; a tower of rock. This is a primarily black and gray drawing; the only color is a tiny green light on the underside of the aircraft.

2024/02/13

February 13, 2024
An enormous stone head: a mouth, eye, and nose carved into a tall obelisk. The eye is a hole drilled right through the stone. The head is situated in the middle of nowhere, on top of a mountain, covered with snow. Visible in the background is a snow-covered treeline of another mountain. The head is covered with garish graffiti: neon pink, white, and green. Next to the head is a person, making the head look the size of a three-story building. Up in the sky is a hawk; the person appears to be signaling to it. The sky is the dull cloudiness of a winter day, with a weak sun filtering through.

2024/01/25

January 25, 2024
A huge factory with three smokestacks billowing smoke. The factory is heavy, rendered in black and dark purple; it stands against a blazing yellow and orange sky that appears to be on fire. The smoke from the smokestacks is yellow. In one square window, on the right side of the factory, a single silhouette of a person is visible.

2024/01/23

January 23, 2024
A cloudy sunrise or sunset. Waves of red clouds hover over a ragged mountainous horizon. Hanging in the sky is an enormous planet, partially covered by clouds and lit from below by the sun. This is a primarily red and black painting.

2024/01/21

January 21, 2024
A vast sky filled with heavy, billowing clouds. Below it is a foggy lake or river, with mountains on the right. It's mostly dark, in the way that a very cloudy late-afternoon feels like nightfall. Floating on the water is a small boat with a person sitting in it, illuminated by a single white lantern.

2024/01/02

January 2, 2024
A vast, eerily green sky. The dark silhouette of a house sits alone on a flat landscape. Facing the viewer is an open door, like one would find on a barn or garage. The house has two small windows in the top left of it: dull green, more like they're reflecting the light of the sky than illuminated from within. Above the house, as though something has punched a small hole in the sky, is a bright dot of white light surrounded by glowing clouds. Tendrils of lightning snake out of the dot. Something is brewing.

2024/01/01

January 1, 2024
A gray, nearly black sky, heavy with clouds. The only hint of sunlight is a dull gray light around the horizon. Sitting on a flat, barren landscape are two objects: a barn-like building on the right, and a tall, black rocketship on the left. To the right of the barn is a spindly metal antenna with a red light on top. To the left of the rocket is a metal support structure. There is a glowing green window lit on the body of the rocket. There are two lit windows on the right side of the barn, also.

2023/12/28

December 28, 2023
The edge of a foggy wood, set against a light orange sky. Looming out of the fog are many straight, tall tree trunks. The branches aren't visible, giving the impression of a forest of dead trees. A low white fog covers the ground. Standing among the trees is a tall figure wearing a robe, with two horns that look like tree roots sticking up out of its head. It is holding a tall staff, which also has small roots and branches sticking out of it. It is walking towards the right of the drawing, where there is a small sign pointing to the right. No lettering is visible on the sign. A hazy white sun hangs high in the sky.

2023/12/22

December 22, 2023
A desert at either sunrise or sunset. The sky is burning shades of yellow and crimson; the desert floor is a dark bluish-black. The horizon is mostly flat, punctuated by one tower of rock in the distance. Stretching towards the viewer is the dim blue line of a road. A single car is visible, the yellow headlights glowing dimly. Hovering above the scene are two huge, spherical balloons, reflecting the colors of the sky. They look like the size of planets, but are probably smaller. Hanging beneath them are tiny baskets. Both have small, glowing lights on the top.

2023/12/21

December 21, 2023
A view over a vast, mountainous forest: hills covered with heavy woods. The hill closest to the viewer is dark brown, with a small cabin on top of it. There is a light on, and smoke drifting up from the chimney. On the hill beyond it looms a massive dish antenna; something the size of a football field or larger. The sky is heavy with wispy clouds, a weak sun filtering through. The whole scene is a brownish yellow, suggesting a hazy, muggy day. Above it all circles the small form of a hawk or eagle.

2023/12/19

December 19, 2023
A small figure stands on a rocky slope at the edge of the ocean. Waves crash up against the rocks. The air is heavy with sunlight and moisture, as if directly after a rain; the sun hangs high in the sky, partially obscured by yellow clouds. The slope is covered in yellow light. The figure is flying a red triangular kite with a red tail streaming out behind it. The kite is flying towards the sun.

2023/11/26

November 26, 2023
Two black rubber boots, positioned as though someone is standing in them, with steam rising out of each to form a large, amorphous cloud. The background of this drawing is gray; the boots are black; the steam is white.

2023/09/17

September 17, 2023
The crumbling shell of an abandoned castle sits on a mountaintop under a blazing sunset. Clouds cover the sky in waves of fire. Hovering above the ruins is a zeppelin.

2023/09/15

September 15, 2023
A sunset: a fire-yellow sky over a dark, hilly horizon, fading into purple stripes above. The sun itself is more a blazing yellow stripe than a circle. Scattering into the sky from the left is a collection of large black crows. If this looks vaguely familiar to you, don't worry, I'm fine, and the story about this being his final painting is apocryphal.

2023/09/04

September 4, 2023
A small path—or perhaps a brook—in the foreground, winding across a barren, uneven landscape. To the right of it is a small sign post. Looming vast in the distance is a large, foggy shape of a mountain. The sky is filled with a turbulent collection of clouds surrounding what is either the moon or the sun.

2023/08/30

August 30, 2023
A mountain peak, a clear blue sky, and a bright yellow hot air balloon drifting in the top right. In the top left is an eagle, high above the mountain. There is no more to this place than this.

2023/08/24

August 24, 2023
A sun blazes over a mountain valley. On the left side of the drawing, sloping down towards the right, are a series of mountain peaks, the ridgeline highlighted in red. The sky itself is a garish, impressionist blend of red and green. The sun is white. The shaded part of the mountains are black and blue. The drawing is rendered in a rough, impressionist texture, suggesting either a woodcut or heavy brushstrokes.

2023/08/11

August 11, 2023
A sky heavy with red clouds, like those from a forest fire. A worn-looking sun hangs in the middle of them. In the foreground is a large, rectangular structure, like a castle wall. This takes up the lower left quarter of the drawing. In the top right of the wall, at the very edge, is placed a warning sign: an exclamation point in a triangle. Set in the middle of the wall is a rectangular window with a rounded top, like a castle window. Sitting in the window is an unassuming-looking creature with long ears. Normal people would look at it and say something like "oh, a rabbit!" An understandable error, but a dangerous one; for this is a demon rabbit.

2023/07/09

July 9, 2023
A smartphone rises up from a layer of dense fog. The base of the phone and the ground can't be seen; just an amorphous carpet of clouds. The screen of the phone is very blurry, as though obscured by a layer of vapor. The screen shows glowing colored squares, arranged haphazardly, not in the usual grid of app icons. Silhouettes are visible in the squares, like people looking out of windows. Above the phone, a blurry moon is in the sky. The moonlight reflects off the top of the phone.

2023/06/28

June 28, 2023
A house stands on a rocky hill at night. Behind the house, the sky is filled with billowing phosphorescent green clouds: could be fog or maybe even the aurora. Fog appears to be hanging low to the ground as well. On the second floor of the house, two windows are lit.

2023/06/24

June 24, 2023
A small railroad station—just a covered platform and signal—sits by a single track, far out in the middle of nowhere. A locomotive is visible in the distance, the headlamps lit. The blurry surroundings suggest fog. Above are a few wispy clouds, and either the sun or the moon.

2023/06/16

June 16, 2023
A small, extremely localized thunderstorm unleashes a downpour and lightning bolt in one specific spot. The entire storm is maybe not more than 12 feet in diameter. Other than the storm, the sky is completely blue; above, the sun shines. Standing directly under the cloud is a person, grasping the thin, jagged lightning bolt as though it's a string attached to a balloon.

2023/06/02

June 2, 2023
A small, grassy hill, far out in the middle of a forest. It's early evening on a damp, foggy night. The sky is a deep blue, not black. There is a full moon wrapped in fog, with a blurry tree line in the background. On top of the hill stands a pink, glowing vending machine (the soda kind, not the food kind). On top of the vending machine sits a cat.

2023/05/15

May 15, 2023
A huge object of rock and soil floating in oblivion, as though someone ripped an asteroid-sized chunk from the earth. On top of the object, which has a flat surface, sits a gas station. A truck is in one of the bays; a figure walks casually from the store to the truck. Above is a full moon in a cloudy sky.

2023/05/05

May 5, 2023
A lonely, sharp mountain top on which stands a small, twisted tree with few branches and no leaves. Hanging from the tree is a mailbox and a red decorative sphere. Built into the branches is a small, spherical dwelling that looks a little like a wasp nest. The dwelling has a circular window in it, brightly lit. Also built into the branches is a platform with several brown cardboard boxes stacked on top of it; the kind that would be delivered from Amazon.

2023/04/25

April 25, 2023
A small, weird house that appears to be growing thick roots. The lower floor of the house has a door with barred windows, and a small, narrow, barred window to the left of the door. The upper floor of the house is occupied by a giant eye. Above the house are white fluffy clouds. The light suggests early evening, when the sun is gone, but the sky is still blue. That time, or thereabouts, is exactly when you would expect to encounter a house like this. (The other time is between midnight and three in the morning.)

2023/04/06

April 6, 2023
A vast, flat, desert floor. Rising up from it are huge blocks the size of an apartment building, but they have no windows or doors. They're not arranged in a city grid, or connected by streets; they're placed at random places, in a sort of staggered pattern. One is nearest the viewer, one is a little ways away, and one is barely a ghost in the distance. The sun sits in a partly cloudy sky, at what looks like late afternoon; the buildings cast long shadows. Walking between the buildings, across the desert, is a very small figure, alone, also casting a long shadow. Above, the only other living thing is a large bird circling in the dry heat of the far desert.

2023/03/25

March 25, 2023
A stump of a tree stands near a flat, grassless riverbank. The stump has a branch that sticks far out. Draped over it is an iPhone, the screen displaying colored icons. The iPhone is draped like a towel, bent over the branch as though it's made of rubber. The sky looks like either dawn or dusk: pink clouds, and the ghost of a moon high up in the sky.

2023/03/07

March 7, 2023
A scene in dawn light, with light yellow clouds on a pink sky. A person looks out of the windows of a small cabin with long spindly legs; the effect suggests that maybe it's the person who has long spindly legs, wearing the cabin as though it's a coat or sandwich board.

2023/02/27

February 27, 2023
A lone figure stands at the mouth of a cave, which is also the mouth of a giant stone face in the side of a cliff. Behind, the sun blazes from thick clouds; the kind you see right before or after a rain. There is a faded suggestion of a tree line. The universe holds its breath, awaiting the figure's next move.

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