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2026/04/16

April 16, 2026
A knight in armor, carrying a shield and sword, stands on the edge of a greenish brown, perfectly rectangular cliff. The shield is red, with a gold cross on it. Across from the cliff, hovering in the air, are 10 gold coins, arranged in two perfectly parallel columns. The overall scene suggests a classic video game such as Mario. Below, in the distance, are some purple mountains, and there are a few white clouds in the otherwise blue sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/09

April 9, 2026
A signpost standing at a crossroads in a barren place, under a pink and purple sky. It has two signs: "Accept", pointing right, and "Decline", pointing left. In the distance is a treeline. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/04/05

April 5, 2026
A rocky mountainous landscape under a desert sky. On the left is a dark, drab, rocky face with a smaller, round rock placed against it. Climbing up towards the round rock are two figures wearing robes. One of them is pointing to the rock, on which is hung a white sign that says "Do not disturb." The round white sun sits high in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". Happy Easter.

2026/03/29

March 29, 2026
A vast, yellow grassland under a mostly clear blue sky. In the distance is a purple mountain. Long stands of wispy white clouds reach across the sky. In the middle of the grassland is a crooked pole with a red stop sign fixed to it, even though there is no road other than a vague path leading to the sign. A black bird is perched on the pole, with a few other birds high in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/02/16

February 16, 2026
A vast, green meadow under a mostly cloudless blue sky. The meadow is dotted with white and yellow flowers. In the distance are some blue mountains. Sticking up out of the grass is something unmistakably artificial, and yet unidentifiable: a bent, rusty pipe that resembles a tree trunk, with small pipes, wires, and a large hole towards the top. Extending out of the hole is what could be either a tail or a tentacle: a shiny green appendage with bioluminescent red and green dots on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/31

January 31, 2026
An ominous scene: a steep, dark cliff under a crimson sky. Right at the edge of the cliff, dangling down from the sky from an unseen source, is a long rope ladder. Racing towards the ladder—gripping it, in fact—is a figure wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. Right behind the figure and reaching towards it is a huge dark arm with grasping fingers; an unhappy client, perhaps. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/26

January 26, 2026
A harsh, blocky building on a hill by the sea. The sky is the slate blue of a cloudy winter evening. The building is surrounded by snow and rust-covered, with few niceties: a terrace, several small windows, and a door with a concrete porch. To the right of the door is a single-car garage with a light over it. Another light on the side wall of the garage casts a greenish light over the snow. On the roof of the building are a few antennae with red lights and a large radio dish. The overall effect is that of a Soviet-style official building—perhaps a remote radio station—so the weirdest touch is the large, glowing, green-white sign on top of the building that reads "DINER". The sign has a pink neon underline beneath it. This building could not look less like a diner, but many things are rarely as they immediately seem. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/25

January 25, 2026
A snowy landscape; a colorless world of different grays. Footprints in the snow lead towards a small cabin in the immediate distance. The roof of the cabin is covered with thick snow. Smoke is coming out of the cabin's chimney. The cabin is surrounded by woods. A very dim, foggy treeline is visible behind the cabin. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/20

January 20, 2026
A deep blue city night. Someone stands on a balcony, looking out at a starless sky, illuminated only by an eerie green glow from the door behind them. The building design suggests some alien brutalist architecture: heavy vertical lines, heavy walls, concrete everywhere. In the background loom similar buildings, all of them dark and uninhabited except for one small greenish glowing window. The buildings have small red and pale green glowing lights on top. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/19

January 19, 2026
A scarecrow stands in a desolate field at dusk, the moon high in a pink-purple sky. The scarecrow has a dull-colored tattered shirt, a dark brimmed hat, and a traffic signal for a head. The yellow light is lit. In the distance is a dim purple mountain. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/15

January 15, 2026
A small, tall but narrow wooden house sits at the end of a pier. The house is brown, about two stories, with a tall pointed roof, a red door, and a window with a red shutter. It has a weathered look to it. It's a gray day, with fog all around. The pilings holding up the pier disappear into the fog. Moss hangs from the underside of the pier. The house has a tall pipelike chimney with white smoke coming out of it. On the right side of the house is a glowing white light hanging from a bar. Sitting at the very end of the pier, looking out over the unseen water, is a black cat. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/06

January 6, 2026
A house-sized stack of precariously balanced reddish-gray boulders sits in the middle of a green field. They are held together by rusted metal bands bolted into the rock. It is early dawn or early evening; the sky is clear blue, with a tinge of pink on the horizon. A soft glow of sunlight is visible on the left. Sitting on top of the boulders is a person looking at a phone. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/12/28

December 28, 2025
A desolate, barren, gray desert stretches away under a deep indigo night sky that, despite the color, still appears overcast. In the foreground is what looks like an open manhole, the interior glowing green. Planted next to the hole is a triangular warning sign with a question mark. On the foggy horizon is a house with two windows glowing a dull green, and a small light. Beyond the house is a blurry mountain. Above both, filtering down through the clouds, are two blazing greenish-white lights. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/12/16

December 16, 2025
A blazing red sky, yellow at the horizon, and a rocky purplish hill sloping sharply to the right. Hurtling down the hill is a very large, round object that looks like an alien pocketwatch: dark blue, with glowing green characters and lines on its face, and several lines that look like clock hands. Barely managing to stay in front of it is a person about half the size of the watch. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/30

November 30, 2025
A strange, blurry landscape with the ruins of buildings. This is a dull blue-green world that looks as though it is underwater: misshapen hulks of walls and columns and the vague ghost of a road running between them. A dim light spot in the top right of the sky suggests a sun, and two huge birds circle about it all. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/25

November 25, 2025
The deep, foggy, gray woods. Thick trees loom in the background. In the foreground, a dark figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat and carrying a staff stands before a crooked signpost with two arrows. The white sun filters through the trees and fog. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/19

October 19, 2025
A wide blue open sea under a wide blue open sky. In the left of the sky, on the horizon, are some white clouds. A white sun sits in the top right of the sky. A blue-green stripe of light reflects off the water. This would be a lovely scene for sure if it wasn't portraying a place that used to have icebergs. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/16

October 16, 2025
A person hammers in a fence post for a barbed wire fence. The unusual aspect is that both the post and the person are standing in empty space, several feet past the edge of a cliff on which the fence originates. The person wears blue jeans and a reddish shirt. The sky is a greenish-yellow. Gravity is relative. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/27

September 27, 2025
A dull blue hour. In the foreground, sticking out of a rock, is a majestic sword with a shining golden blade and intricate handle with an inset purple jewel. Carved on the rock is the legend "Delete and Report Junk". In the distance, a blurry silhouette approaches the Sword of Delete and Report Junk. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/14

September 14, 2025
A dark, flat landscape under a dark gray sky. A pale greenish fog hangs heavy above the ground. Looming up from the horizon, out of the fog, is a tall tower with a pointed roof, a glowing green clock face reading 9:41, and a small chimney. Light-colored smoke is coming out of the chimney. Closer to the viewer, a tall figure wearing a hat and carrying a briefcase walks to the right. The figure has a clock key sticking out of its back. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/09/12

September 12, 2025
A lonely, rocky mountain peak under a yellow-green sky. Sticking out of the peak is a post with a sphere at the top of it. The sphere has a smiley-face carved into it. One half of the sphere is blue; the other is covered with runny neon-pink and yellow paint. The paint is being slathered on by a figure holding a large brush and a pink paintcan. Rivulets of pink, yellow, and blue paint run down the sphere and the posts it’s on, and then on down the mountain. The figure must have been working for a while, since the left half of the mountain is covered with paint. The right half is an emerald green. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/08/24

August 24, 2025
A small, very tall house sits on three thin legs on a barren surface of reddish soil. The legs look like those of a Mars lander. The house appears to have three stories: there is a weird metal circular hatch on the first level, two windows on the second, and a single arched window at the top, directly under the pointed roof. The house looks like it may have been something else earlier—a metal machine, or part of a rocket. The surface is rusty, tarnished metal with tinges of red and blue-green. It has odd holes and seams throughout it. The window on the left is a rusty rectangular gap; the window on the right is a well-maintained window with a plant in it. All windows are dark except for the topmost window, which is glowing green, perhaps reflecting the surrounding greenish-yellow sky. A white sun sits in the sky on the left; a dim mountain is visible in the distance. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/08/22

August 22, 2025
A person stands on a skyscraper. The left face of the skyscraper is illuminated with a bright greenish light that fades to a blurry indigo; the right face is mostly in shadow, with only one glowing window visible. The skyscraper stands against a primarily dark indigo sky, the contrast of which particularly brings out the green light. The middle of the sky has a bluish glow to it. Standing on the roof of the skyscraper, the person is flying a white kite with a red tail into the dark part of the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/13

August 13, 2025
A strange, remote place: a gray, rocky hill under a pink sky. At the top of the hill, looking more like an outgrowth of it than a placed object, is a tilted stone cube. Hovering around it are small, glowing wisps of light that appear sentient. In the background is the dim suggestion of a purple tree line. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/02

August 2, 2025
A city scene, at what could be high noon or a hot summer night. The sky is orange, with a yellow sun or moon visible. Tall, dark buildings are in the foreground, with faded outlines of more buildings in the background. The buildings in the foreground have lit orange windows. Launching up from the roof of the lower building is a figure wearing a jet pack. The rocket is spitting a tail of yellow fire. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/01

August 1, 2025
A large, rectangular head is balanced on a small hill. The head is vaguely shaped like the "talking head" icon on classic Macs. It looks like it is made of slightly iridescent stone or metal, and has a reddish-purple sheen to it. The face is craggy and alien in appearance. Its most striking feature is its glowing rainbow eye. The sky behind it is green, with a blazing white sun on the horizon. The sky is yellow at the horizon, with the sunlight turning the hill purple. A few birds circle in the sky above. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/30

July 30, 2025
A giant blue key hangs from a nail. The key is the shape of a regular house key, but has two large, staring eyes at the top and weird striations and lights all along it. It has a mouth with glowing teeth that look like circuitry. Below it, and to the left, is a small humanoid figure about a third the size of the key, reaching towards it. The background is a greenish blue fading to yellow. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/27

July 27, 2025
A humanoid figure with a bull's head stands on the end of a set of square stones floating in a blue sky. The stones are gray and beveled, and look like those from a Nintendo game. They are covered with grime and lichen, and have greenish moss hanging off them. In front of the bull, suspended from strings, are a white cartoonish cloud with sharply defined round edges, and a small green sign with "Goal" written on it in yellow letters. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/26

July 26, 2025
The blue silhouette of a person wearing a top hat stands in a blue-green field. The person is carrying a staff. Above them is the remnant of a stone bridge: a single half-archway, the top covered with grass and weeds. The sky is greenish-yellow. The blurry white sun sits in the top right. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/25

July 25, 2025
An airplane with a white body, a red stripe along the fuselage, and a blue tailfin takes off into a foggy sky. Standing on the runway, whirling a lasso, is a small figure who appears to have missed the plane by a couple of seconds. The runway looks wet; a yellow runway light reflects off it. In the distance is the foggy outline of an airport building and control tower, with a few glowing white lights on it. The sky is a heavy gray color. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/16

July 16, 2025
A figure with horns stands inside an archway of a tower. The tower is on a small, dark island surrounded by mist.  At the top of the tower is a circular opening with a bell inside it. A yellow neon sign reading "OPEN" hangs from the right side of the tower. The sky is dark blue, with a bright neon yellow-green glow coming from below. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/15

July 15, 2025
Several tall, obelisk-like rock formations rise from a barren blue landscape. The sky is crimson, with a bright white moon sitting high in the sky. Yellow fire covers the ground among the rock formations. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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