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2025/08/25

August 25, 2025
The most pagan railroad crossing you've ever seen. Only the signal is visible, standing in the middle of high grass. The crossbuck, while a recognizable X shape, looks like antlers or crossed branches. Both signal lamps are glowing red and resemble eyes. Some strands of moss hang from them. The grass the signal is standing in is a dull green; the sky is yellow. There's a hint of a brown treeline in the background. Maybe trains are not the only thing you need to be watching for. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/23

August 23, 2025
A small, weird vehicle that looks sort of like a condensed reverse pickup truck: a flat bed in the front, with the cab positioned behind it. Behind the cab is a tall black object with a chimney coming out of it. The rear wheel is larger than the front, sort of like a tractor. The truck is a drab green with a yellowish texture, and a yellow light on top. On the bed of the vehicle, held in place with belts, is an odd object: a tall, white, lumpy creation that looks sort of like a pickle. The background is a bluish-green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/21

August 21, 2025
A small island sits in the middle of the ocean. Streaking up from the island is a large rocket ship with small glowing windows on the sides. A white tail of flame traces the ship. In the sky to the left of the ship are a small white sun and a much larger moon; the moon is very close to the planet and appears much larger than the sun. The white sunlight glints off the surface of the ocean. In the close foreground is the rocky silhouette of another body of land. This is a monochrome, predominantly bluish-gray painting, signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/19

August 19, 2025
A dark figure with a desk lamp for a head stands in a dark crimson space. The figure has long arms and long fingers. The lamp casts a bright orange-red beam on a huge face in front of the lamp person. The face is seen in profile, and looks like it is made of stone. Its eyes are closed. Small glowing particles float in the lamp beam. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/08/04

August 4, 2025
A dark, cavernous hallway. A door is cracked open, revealing greenish light from inside. Above the door is a red "exit "sign. On the wall to the right of the door is a large bulletin board with a few barely distinguishable papers fixed to it, and a yellow and black bomb shelter sign above that. Hanging from the ceiling is a long bar shaped fluorescent light, although it is not lit. Snaking out of sight, heading out of the right edge of the drawing, is a long, greenish tail. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/31

July 31, 2025
A giant incandescent lightbulb hangs in a dark gray space. The bulb is not lit. Below it is parked a yellow truck with a cherrypicker. The cherrypicker extends up towards the bulb, and a worker wearing an orange and fluorescent green coat stands in the basket, reaching towards the lightbulb. It's unclear how the worker is going to change the bulb, since comparatively the light bulb is the size of a small house. The truck has an orange flashing light on top, several red triangular warning decals, and a few red and white hazard stripes. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/29

July 29, 2025
A yellow humanoid figure stands against a brick-red/brown background. The figure has four googly eyes stuck to its body at various points. In its right hand, it is carrying a red briefcase. Its left hand is raised and glowing a yellow-white. Where its face would be is a large googly eye. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/24

July 24, 2025
A strange, abandoned looking building. The first floor has an arched window and an arched wooden door, both the same size and shape. The window reveals a black interior, while the door is shut. The second floor has an arched opening that looks like a bell tower, except instead of a bell, a single bulb hangs inside it. The building appears to be made of stone, is decrepit, and has smears of brightly colored paint around it, as though it was the target of unfocused vandals. Hanging off the left of the building is a small birdhouse. Hanging off the right of the building is a small reddish sign that reads "open". The building stands against a yellow sky, and has a sharp, pointed roof. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/20

July 20, 2025
A cable car suspended in a blue sky. The car looks like a small house with a pointed roof, a porch, and a large window framed in orange. Inside the window, there is a dark silhouette with horns. The exterior walls of the house are a dark green. The windows glow with yellow light. The sky is blue, with a few birds. Below is the blurry green suggestion of a treeline. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/14

July 14, 2025
A silhouette of a figure stands atop a large blue rectangular stone, holding a shield and a hobbyhorse. The shield features a yellow cross on a blue background. The background consists of a bright green-yellow. The stone has a large carved eye, oriented up and to the right towards the figure, and also displays some colored markings, suggesting a surface with graffiti or carvings. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

2025/07/11

July 11, 2025
Two enormous alphabet blocks are stacked on top of each other. A, which is dark blue and reddish, is the base. B, on top of it and overhanging the right side, is yellow on dark green. Dangling above the blocks is a third similarly sized block, C. C is white on blue. Standing on A, looking up and gesturing to an unseen crane operator, is a worker wearing an orange vest and helmet. The sky is pink fading to blue. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/07/05

July 5, 2025
A large, dark-colored creature with a thick body, long legs, and an arm with long fingers stands against a bright yellow-orange background. The creature is wearing a fedora hat and has several antennae. Where the creature's face would be is a round,  iridescent, greenish-purple window. A face is dimly visible through the window, implying that the creature is actually some sort of suit. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/30

June 30, 2025
A tall, dark figure wearing a top hat sits astride a broom, sailing through a bright yellow-green sky. The figure is gripping a steering wheel fixed to the front of the broom. A windup key is sticking out of the figure's back. In the top right of the sky sits a blazing white sun. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/24

June 24, 2025
A metal object shaped like a howitzer shell or a short, fat, rocket: curved sides, pointed tip. Three legs emerge from beneath it. The object has one round portal on the right side, through which can be seen the profile of a human face. The face is harsh, expressionless, and remote. The window is a fluorescent yellow-green. The object itself, and the legs beneath it, are indigo with an iridescent green sheen. This is placed against a yellow background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/20

June 20, 2025
A small submersible craft hovers a few feet above the ocean floor. The craft is mostly black, with hints of a drab green metal exterior. Towards the rear is a glowing blue-green portal with a cat sitting in it. The front of the craft has a bubble-shaped windshield, also glowing blue. A small white light is on the hatchway. Someone is sitting behind the windshield, steering the craft. There is some tiny green text stenciled on the side of the submersible but it's too small to read. Directly below the craft, illuminating the underside, is a blazing white hole in the ocean floor. All around, the sea is dark blue fading to black. There are no other signs of life. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/12

June 12, 2025
A reddish yellow sky over the desert. In the distance and foreground are craggy reddish rock formations that reflect the yellow sunlight. Soaring overhead is a black, triangular craft that does not look like it's from this world. On the underside at its front is a glowing green circle. Glowing green lines are placed on the rear edges of both of its wings, and it has other lines that give it a sleek, alien appearance. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/06/10

June 10, 2025
An odd looking yellow taxi cruises through the night. The taxi is taller than it is long, with a checkered yellow and black stripe along the side. The base of the taxi has red, orange, and yellow stripes along it. The taxi itself is yellow with a greenish blue tinge to it, and a small orange light on top. Most unusually, the taxi does not have wheels; extending from the wheel wells are two red legs wearing green boots with yellow stripes. No driver or passenger is visible. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/06/07

June 7, 2025
A portrait of a man. The portrait is roughly divided into two styles: the left side is more painterly, while the right side is a bitmap composed of pixels. The man has slightly wild black hair, glasses, and a mustache, and is smiling. The overall composition is mixed-media on a gray background, with tinges of rainbow colors and colored pixels placed throughout the painting. The person depicted is Apple designer and engineer Bill Atkinson. The pixel part of this is based on an existing icon included in HyperCard; I'm unsure of who the artist is. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Thinking of Bill Atkinson tonight.

2025/06/01

June 1, 2025
A weird, alien-looking remnant of some decaying piece of infrastructure. The object, sticking up out of the ground, is rusty brown and unrecognizable but looks large. It is shaped roughly like a wrench-head. Some might see a face in profile, with an open mouth and jagged teeth. The object has pipes, dangling wires, and pieces that suggest they were once part of a grill. A small red warning triangle is applied to one of its surfaces. Next to it, a smaller pipe sticks up out of the ground with wires coming out of it. The sky is a bright yellow, with a hazy sun in the top right. In the background are vague brown shapes that could be trees or buildings. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/24

May 24, 2025
A stiff figure in a suit tilts sideways, looking off-balance. Fixed to its head is a large, glowing white halo mounted on a small pole. Thin smoke rises from the halo. The halo is plugged into a wall outlet, and it is the shortness of the cable that is causing the figure to tilt. This is a dull green and periwinkle painting, with the figure rendered in dark shades of periwinkle. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/15

May 15, 2025
A small rocket ship blasts into the sky. It is surrounded by an atmosphere of heavy, brown clouds. The rocket ship itself is small and brown, with a white jet of flame shooting out beneath it that gradually turns into yellow smoke. There is one blazing green portal window in the side, through which a cat can be seen. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/08

May 8, 2025
The large outlines of two windowless tenement buildings loom out of a foggy yellow sky. A rocket ship is bursting out of the wall on the left-side building, the wall flying apart in an explosion of white light and debris. The rocket continues into the sky, leaving a white trail behind it. A small glowing green portal on the side of the rocket chose a person sitting inside. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/05/03

May 3, 2025
An odd metal machine on two spindly legs. The machine is a collection of boxy metal compartments that looks a little like a construction vehicle with a few more boxes pilled on. It is a dark, tarnished, coppery green. Each compartment has a few yellow windows in it; one shows the driver, one has a passenger, and one shows a cat. A few have thin, uneven antennas sticking out of them. The sky is a deep red-orange. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/25

April 25, 2025
A large box truck sits on a tarmac; only the rear is visible. The back of the truck is open, going by the eerie greenish light coming from it. The truck has an angled ramp and two satellite dishes on top. A figure is pushing a large box with a purple question mark on its side up the ramp into the truck. The sky is a dark purple. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/23

April 23, 2025
A figure wearing a red-orange unibody suit and a space helmet rides a unicycle. The helmet is a sphere of glass, through which only the blurry silhouette of the figure's head is seen. The figure is slender with arms extended. In one hand, the figure holds a baton with a spherical yellow "angry" emoji. The background is bluish-green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/19

April 19, 2025
Two figures stand on top of a rusty locomotive, dueling with crossed swords. The locomotive is crossing an arched bridge. The white beam of the locomotive's headlamp lights up the dark. The locomotive has bright red taillights. The sky is blue-purplish fading to pink, and filled with stars. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/18

April 18, 2025
A robot figure the color of rusting iron stands upright, featuring a large round head and holes for eyes. The body is boxy, with only cylindrical stubs for arms and a tie that hangs from the neck area. The head is being partially lifted up by a figure that seems to be climbing out of the robots body. Above the head is a glowing white halo. The background is textured shades of blue and green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/11

April 11, 2025
A tall, angular church structure stands against a vivid orange sky, its windows glowing with a bluish light. The building features a central steeple with a dim clock face, topped with a crosslike rod, and a smaller gabled section beneath it with tall blue windows. A missile rises diagonally from the left, trailing yellow exhaust as it exits from a hatchway in the roof on the right. A hazy yellow sun sits in the orange sky. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman.”

2025/03/31

March 31, 2025
A hill at sundown. The upper part of the sky is starry and dark blue, fading to a golden glow on the horizon, especially on the right side. Sitting on top of the hill is a classic Macintosh computer, the size of a building. Its screen is facing to the right, and appears to be mostly dark except for a single white dialogue box in the middle of the screen. It's not clear what the dialogue box says, but anyone who's used a Mac in the 80s or 90s will recognize this as the "it is now safe to switch off your Macintosh" message.  While the computer is mostly in silhouette, the right edge is illuminated by the last rays of sunlight. On the left side, a small door is open at the base of the computer, revealing golden light from inside. A figure stands silhouetted in the doorway. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/03/24

March 24, 2025
The end of a concrete dock at night. The sky is a deep blue and filled with stars. A low layer of greenish mist covers the water. The dock is low and flat, with a few leaking pipes on the side. On the dock itself is a small, boxy shack with a large dish antenna mounted on the roof. The shack and antenna are lit on the right side by a pale source of light located offscreen; maybe the headlights of a parked but running car. On the left side of the shack, facing out to sea, is a glowing white light. At the very end of the dock, a figure stands, holding a glowing yellow lantern out over the water. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/23

February 23, 2025
A small figure stands in a bright orange space. It is wearing a shiny purple space suit of some sort, its head encased in a perfectly spherical helmet with a circular faceplate on the front, like a diver's helmet. The faceplate glows a holographic green. The figure has one hand on its hip and the other out in front of it, and it is inspecting a small glowing green circle on its wrist, like someone checking a watch. On the front of the suit is a small pattern of four bright blue lines arranged in a diamond shape; possibly a control panel. Beyond the figure is a blaze of white and yellow light—not the sun, something else, perhaps a time portal that it has just stepped out of. The light reflects off the back of the figure, the reflection an iridescent greenish-blue like what you'd see on a beetle. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/20

February 20, 2025
Either early morning or late evening: most of the sky is still a dark, heavy blue. There is a slight bluish glow on the dark horizon. On a small hill is a large industrial complex: smoke stacks and piping, with a few glowing red and green lights. It appears to be unpopulated. Glowing green smoke comes from two of the stacks. In the foreground, the ground is a dark indigo. A dim road winds along the ground towards the viewer. Driving along the road is a small car, the headlights casting a yellow glow in front of it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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