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2025/03/19

March 19, 2025
A blurry desert scene, like something from a dream. The sky is a bright yellow, with a blazing white blur of a sun in the top right. The landscape is flat and reddish brown, punctuated by mountains and a tall, towering promontory. Hovering on the sky, far sharper and clearer than anything else in the scene, is a shiny reddish saucer, the sunlight glinting off of. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/13

January 13, 2025
A single wall with an uneven top stands in a barren, yellow space that suggests a desert. The side of the wall facing the viewer is in shadow, and is nearly black. Nevertheless, one can make out the dim outlines of several large sheets of paper fixed to the wall. It's not visible what's on most of them, but the largest appears to have a portrait of someone wearing a dark jacket and tie. Two large, plastic googly eyes are pasted on the person's face. They are facing right. To the right of the wall and slightly behind it, walking out from behind it, is a dark silhouette of a person. The figure is casting a shadow towards the viewer. The person has a googly eye fixed to their head as well, and that eye is looking towards the wall. A bright white sun burns in the sky.

2024/10/06

October 6, 2024
A person stands on a small rocky promontory in the middle of what looks like a scrubby desert. They are holding out what appears to be a handgun. Blocky mountains are visible in the background. The person is engulfed in a greenish beam of light reminiscent of a Star Trek transporter beam. The sky is a dull yellow.

2024/09/27

September 27, 2024
A dull yellow and red desert scene. Towering over a rock is a huge glowing white figure with a halo, left arm raised, a glowing fireball in its hand. Below is a small house with a tall pointed roof and a flag. A path leads to the house. There is a small sign with illegible text and an arrow pointing up. People are walking along the path. More people are lined up in front of the rock as though the figure is a tourist attraction.

2024/09/08

September 8, 2024
A dusty yellow desert at high noon. Birds circle in the sky. Below, rising out of the dust, is a pyramid with a giant eye on the side. The eye is looking skyward. Above, in the top left of the sky, is a dirigible: novus versus vetera in ordo seclorum.

2024/06/29

June 29, 2024
A black mouse cursor—that arrow we all know—stands embedded into a desert, point down. It is huge, the size of a two- to three-story building, and appears to be made of rusting metal; Richard Serra comes to mind. Around it stand two small figures, casting long, brownish shadows on the desert floor. There is no visible horizon. The scene fades from the darker gold of the desert floor to the washed-out yellow of the sky. The sun itself is blazing white and hangs high in the sky, surrounded by birds.

2024/06/19

June 19, 2024
A very tall, dilapidated sign. The sign is an arrow shaped like an uppercase L, with the arrowhead at the base of the L, pointing right. The word "motel" is printed on the L in large, faded, red letters. The sign is weatherbeaten, with holes and patches on it, and is supported by a few rickety support beams. It appears to be in the middle of a desert: flat brown land, golden sky, yellow sun. The arrowhead is pointed at a small birdhouse directly to the right of the sign. Perched on top of the sign is a black bird.

2024/05/04

May 4, 2024
A barren, sun-blasted desert, rendered in shades of bleached yellow and tan. This desert is particularly sun-blasted because hanging low in the sky are not one but two suns, similarly sized and close to each other. In the background is a low mountain. In the foreground is a small, domed building that looks like an igloo with entrances in the front and the back. To the right of the building is the small figure of a person; possibly a bored moisture farmer who is wondering where his droid went.

2024/03/27

March 27, 2024
A hazy, yellow desert, with low mountains in the background. The sun sits high in the sky, as buzzards wheel above. Hovering about 30 feet above the desert floor is a house-sized metal sphere the color of the desert. There is only one opening in it: a circular hatchway, revealing a greenish glow from the interior. A ladder drops from the hatchway to the ground. Walking away from the ladder is a small figure carrying a staff.

2024/02/15

February 15, 2024
A desert scene, late afternoon: a golden sky with clouds scattered across it, and a partially concealed sun. A truck is parked in the middle of a barren rise, the driver standing next to it, casting a long shadow. Visible in the distance is the hazy brown shape of a natural rock formation. Flying overhead is a black triangular aircraft seen from the rear, the red glow of the engine visible and a bright green light on the underside.

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.

2023/12/08

December 8, 2023
A tall, jagged, rocky promontory, of the sort you'd find in a desert. There are blurry suggestions of similar formations in the background. The red sun blazes high in the sky. This looks like high noon on some remote desert, perhaps even on a different planet. The drawing is composed primarily of four colors: a yellow sky, a red sun, and the black rock that's blazing red on the side towards the sun and a deep blue on the side facing away from it.

2023/08/29

August 29, 2023
A vast desert plain. Above, the sky is black and starry; below, a light blazes on the horizon, less like a sunset and more like a bonfire. Hanging above the plain is what appears to be an asteroid with a huge eye on it. The eye is looking down at the desert, where a tiny figure stands, both arms raised, seemingly signaling to it.

2023/08/17

August 17, 2023
A rough, humanoid shape—its silhouette would resemble a person in a cave painting—stands in what appears to be the middle of a desert. The sun blazes behind it. Everything is red with heat; a glow around its legs suggests the ground is radiating energy. The figure is facing the viewer, arms stiffly straight on both sides, an inscrutable expression on its face, zombie-like. To the figure's left—your right, that is—stands a barren, leafless tree. Both the figure and the tree cast long, red shadows.

2023/06/09

June 9, 2023
A huge, wrinkled face rises out of the desert floor, seemingly carved from stone. It looks like an obelisk. All of it is fully formed, except for the mouth area: a giant, rocky hollow which someone is carving out, hacking away at with a miner's pick.

2023/05/12

May 12, 2023
A broad, desert expanse; the heat of a desert afternoon. Mountains shimmer in the distance. You're standing on a grassy hilltop overlooking a plain. Placed on the hill, for no apparent reason, is a tall, weathered sign with the word "diner" on it. A bird perches on the sign; a vulture circles overhead.

2023/03/02

March 2, 2023
A furry creature stands on top of a tire in the middle of a desert, skillfully rolling it along. But the creature's head contains a circular window, through which we see that another furry creature sits inside it, holding a steering wheel. But that creature's head has a circular window too, in which the tiny silhouette of a person is visible. That person's head is intact.

2022/12/28

December 28, 2022
Two people approach a giant computer tower case in the desert. The tower is truly huge, appearing out of the haze and heat as though it were a pyramid.

2022/01/13

January 13, 2022
A man stands in a desert holding a briefcase, facing down approaching helicopters
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