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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".

2025/02/19

February 19, 2025
A tall, craggy, conical mountain rises out of the gloom of fog. The sky is a heavy, dark gray. Extending out of the mountain's left side is a long dock, jutting into space. The doorway casts white light along the dock. Above the dock, high in the air, is a small figure wearing what appears to be a jet pack. White flames are shooting out of the jet pack, leaving a trail of light gray smoke. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/09

February 9, 2025
A short, rust-colored robot wanders through a reddish field under a yellow sky. The sun sits in the top right of the sky. The robot's head and torso are large and boxy, with thin pipe-like arms and legs. The robot's head has three googly eyes stuck to it. On the front of its torso are some knobs, dials, vents, and a rectangular exposed compartment with red wires in it. It is facing the viewer, holding up its left hand. Perched on its hand is a reddish bird with a green iridescent tinge to it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/04

February 4, 2025
A silvery flying saucer hovers in a clear blue sky, the sunlight glinting off it. On the underside is a glowing white opening from which a beam of light extends down. Directly under the saucer is a conical hill covered in green trees. In front of the hill is a small yellow diamond-shaped sign; the kind you'd see on any North American road. The sign has a black icon of a flying saucer on it that matches the saucer behind it perfectly. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/23

January 23, 2025
An uneven brown desert surface sits under a reddish-orange Martian sky. A small brown Mars lander sits on the surface. The lander has three feet, a large parabolic dish aimed at the sky, and a smaller blue solar panel. Two large googly eyes are stuck on the side of the Mars lander. There is a ventilation slot on the side of the lander as well. The eyes are oriented up and to the left.

2025/01/16

January 16, 2025
A person in a top hat strides purposefully along, a gigantic metal wheel under their feet. The wheel is as tall as they are. They look like they are balanced on top of the wheel like a circus performer. The wheel looks like some sort of industrial component: five spokes, with a slight rusty tinge to it. It's traveling pretty fast, in the air slightly above the ground, kicking up bits of gravel. The ground around it is barren and rocky. On the horizon are blurry suggestions of trees. The person above is holding a gentleman's cane and an umbrella. Above, the sun hangs in the sky. This is a primarily grayscale painting. It is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/10

January 10, 2025
An object streaks through space, wrapped in greenish-blue fire. The object is vaguely spherical and looks like a space rock with the tail of a comet. However, it also looks like the front of a bus: green windows, orange running lights, white headlights, people visible inside, and a sign above the windshield with green letters that read "M1 via 5 Av". Stars are visible in the black sky.

2025/01/08

January 8, 2025
A small, orange, bullet-shaped rocket ship with two orange fins at the lower end and two round, bluish portals on its side. There is a yellow stripe across each fin, and another yellow stripe across the tip of the rocket. The tip of the rocket also has a glowing red light, with a green light on the left fin and a bluish light on the right fin. The ship is streaking upwards through black, starry space, leaving a trail of glowing greenish fire.

2024/12/11

December 11, 2024
A bright orange vehicle with three legs. The vehicle looks like what you'd get if you put a helmet from a hazardous waste outfit on top of three human legs. The visor of the helmet is the windshield. Sitting behind the windshield is the shadowy silhouette of the driver. The vehicle has another smaller round window, revealing a small potted tree wrapped in white holiday lights. The vehicle is in a dark area, and has a single white headlight casting a beam of light. Sitting behind the rearmost leg of the vehicle is a black cat with glowing green eyes.

2024/11/27

November 27, 2024
A dark concrete room, lit only by a bright orange torch on the left side of the wall. In the center, dominating the room, is a tall black cabinet that looks like a server rack, filled with complex machines and red and green lights. At the bottom of the cabinet, a small door is open. Snaking out from the door is a large black arm with clawed fingers.

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