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2025/03/27

March 27, 2025
A dingy concrete room that is probably underground. Stacked in the left corner are four grimy metal orange barrels of the kind used to store toxic waste. Where warning decals would normally be applied are yellow smiley-faces. The only light in the room is the greenish glow from a long fluorescent tube suspended from the ceiling. On the back wall is a doorway with steps leading up into darkness. To the left of the door are a few light switches and a featureless gray box. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2024/12/04

December 4, 2024
A person stands in the middle of a green meadow, gripping a slingshot in front of them. They've just fired a large rock at an enormous yellow sphere with a smiling face. The sphere is hovering in the clear blue sky above and to the right, and is staring back at them.

2024/11/17

November 17, 2024
A blazing sunrise or sunset. The sky is yellow; the sun is low on the horizon, turning the meadow in front of it a bright red. Rising up from the meadow is a tall metal pole with those little rungs you see on power line towers. The pole ends in a large dark gray metal sphere with a smiley-face emblazoned on it. The sphere is hollow, with an opening beneath it into which the pole disappears. There's a greenish light emanating from inside the sphere. A single bird flies overhead.

2024/08/07

August 7, 2024
A field with spherical objects connected to the ground by vines. The objects look like fruits or vegetables, but have smiley faces on them, as though they are emoji. In the distance is a ragged scarecrow, its head a frowning face. Perched on its right arm is a bird. There is a suggestion of trees in the distance. The sky is cloudy. This is a pink and purple painting.

2024/04/06

April 6, 2024
A dark, cloudy night. In the foreground is a bare, rocky hillside overlooking a flat plane. In the distance, but not too far away, is the wooded slope of another hill. Someone is standing on the rocky hillside, holding a long cable. The cable curves up to where an enormous yellow smiley-face hangs in the sky. Yellow light from the face is reflecting off the person and the plane. Most of the drawing is gray and black, except for the yellow smiley-face.

2024/03/16

March 16, 2024
A dark gray day, edging into evening. Fog is visible on the ground. The world is slate-gray. In the distance is a blurry suggestion of a forest. Rising up from the forest is a tall, spindly tower that looks like a radio mast. At the top of the tower is a glowing yellow neon smiley-face. Large birds circle the top of the tower. In the foreground, a person stands looking at the tower, holding in their left hand a glowing spherical smiley-emoji as though it's a lantern. The emoji casts yellow light on the ground, which looks as though it's wet.

2024/03/12

March 12, 2024
A statue of a person stands on a small conical rise that looks like the very tip of a mountain. The statue, vaguely Soviet-ish, appears to be made of metal or concrete. It is wearing a coat and its left arm is raised in a wave, as though to a crowd. Its head, though, does not look like the rest of the statue: a spherical, bright yellow emoji with a laughing face. There is a bird perched on top of it. Below, to the right, two small figures about a quarter of the size of the statue are standing together, taking a selfie. The sky is an orange-red and the statue and mountaintop, mostly black, are tinged red.

2023/12/10

December 10, 2023
A skull and crossbones, except the skull is that "grimace" emoji: a round face with two dots for eyes and a mouth in a straight, horizontal line showing teeth. The face and bones are white, on a black background.

2023/08/15

August 15, 2023
A figure, wearing a black shirt or robe, visible from the chest up, staring at the camera. The figure is set against a slate-gray sky with a row of clouds above it. The figure has its mouth open in an apparent scream, both hands clapped to its cheeks. The figure's head is more like an icon than anything human—not much more than a yellow sphere; two large white ovals that constitute empty, staring eyes; another black oval for a mouth. Someone familiar with emoji would recognize the iOS "scream" emoji; someone familiar with art would recognize that emoji's inspiration. If I were the pretentious type, I'd say something intelligent-sounding about how this is the most meta thing I've ever drawn. It is, but I'm not.

2023/04/16

April 16, 2023
An eerie figure that seems to be carved from stone stands in the light of a moon that looks like the Facebook "haha" reaction. The figure has no ears, a strange smile, and wears a suit and fedora. One side of the figure's face is hidden in shadow; on the side that isn't, there's a smiley face instead of an eye.

2023/03/20

March 20, 2023
A giant werewolf-like monster stands in two legs, raising its arms over its head. Its hands are huge and clawed. In place of a face is a smiling emoji with eyes for hearts.

2023/03/18

March 18, 2023
A figure holds up, over its head, a giant puppet that looks like a smiley-face emoji. The puppet is huge, about twice the size of the figure. The puppet has its own smaller puppet (or, perhaps, meta-puppet?) which looks like a frowny-face emoji.

2023/03/04

March 4, 2023
An electrical outlet, but both receptacles resemble Facebook reaction emoji; upper receptacle is angry, lower one is laughing

2023/02/25

February 25, 2023
A headless figure stands on a dark stage, juggling three emoji: a sad one, a laughing one, and an angry one.

2022/07/22

July 22, 2022

2022/07/05

July 5, 2022
A bulky person with overalls walks at night, carrying a lantern with the Facebook "angry" emoji

2022/05/19

May 19, 2022
A drippy painting of a smiley face with crossbones, like a pirate symbol

2022/05/11

May 11, 2022
A giant moon with a smiley face hangs over a forest at night. A small figure with a flashlight casts a beam.

2022/01/05

January 5, 2022
A nervous blue sweating emoji face on a yellow background

2022/01/02

January 2, 2022
An emoji sticking out its tongue, set on a crimson background
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