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2026/01/30

January 30, 2026
A black background with a red "Closed" sign, like a lot of businesses are displaying right now in solidarity with the nationwide general strike and the protest against ICE. The sign reads "Sorry, We're Closed" in white letters in that mix of script and all-caps sans-serif that I like so much. In the lower left are the words "Fire ICE", scrawled in neon-pink graffiti lettering. In the top right is the Minnesota flag, a design that features a light blue field with a darker blue obtuse angular figure on the hoist. There's one small modification, though: in place of the white star is the Rebel Alliance logo from Star Wars. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/29

January 29, 2026
Goblin town: a dull, gray netherworld. A figure with horns and a long tail stands in front of a glowing billboard displaying a subway map of some unknown city. The map has numerous interconnecting colored lines, rendered in sharp geometric lines. No city is recognizable, and no station names are legible. The figure, silhouetted in the greenish glow from the board, is slightly hunched, with short legs and long arms. It is holding a briefcase, and has a windup key sticking out of its back. A low fog hangs over the ground. Glowing green-white fluorescent tubes hang above the scene. A few dim, horned shapes roam in the background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/27

January 27, 2026
A green, goblinesque figure wearing a black baseball cap backwards, an indigo jacket with gold stars on the back, a pair of garish red-orange pants, and black boots with a purple lightning bolt on one. The figure has long pointed ears, a long, pointed nose, a long, pointed face, and long, pointed teeth. It is gesturing creepily with its hands the way a monster in a horror film might do. Its eyes are partly covered by the baseball cap. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/22

January 22, 2026
Two images on a dull gray surface. One is a greenish monochrome photograph of a person wearing a suit and tie. The person is also wearing a badge, although the badge is too small to show any specific content. The top of the photograph is torn off, so the person's head is missing. Beneath the photo, like an underlying sheet of paper, is another image: a garishly colored depiction of a snarling demonic face with horns, pointed ears, and bulging eyes. The face is mostly crimson on a dark purple background, with highlights in yellow and neon greens and blues. The edges of this image are slightly tattered. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/21

January 21, 2026
A tall, blue figure wearing something that looks vaguely like a uniform stumbles forward awkwardly, brandishing a long sword. The figure wears boots and has the head of a robot, with a flat mouth and staring blue eyes. Perched on its back, one finger pointed forward, is a short, red, demonic-looking creature with a conspicuously fake white halo fixed to its head. The background is a bright yellowish-red. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/13

January 13, 2026
A bright yellow rubber duck floats in the calm blue-green expanse of the open ocean, under a mostly clear blue sky. On closer inspection, though, the duck has some sinister details: a round, glassy, reddish eye that looks distinctly technological; a small vent; and, most notably, a radio antenna sticking up out of its back. Fixed to the antenna is a slightly ragged black pirate flag with a skull and crossbones on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". Happy January 13.

2026/01/12

January 12, 2026
A figure stands on a craggy point overlooking the ocean, one hand on its hip. The sky is the deep blue of a cloudy late evening or early morning. The figure is wearing a dark coat, and has a traffic signal for a head. The yellow light is illuminated, casting a dim yellowish tinge on the rock in front of it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/10

January 10, 2026
A figure runs through the dark, pointing a blazing whitish-green flashlight beam in front of it. The figure wears a dark, drab-brown suit and tie, and is sprinting out of the dark bluish fog that surrounds it. Its head is enormous—at least twice the size of its body—and looks like the square, minimalist "talking head" icon from classic Mac dialog boxes. The head is blue and looks like a blueprint, but hardly an organized one: it is covered with a chaotic scramble of lines, arrows, flowcharts, and scribbles that suggest a deeply disorganized mind. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/08

January 8, 2026
A hulking creature with dark reddish fur stands against a blue-gray background. The creature has a disproportionately large upper body and long, apelike arms with pointed fingers. It is wearing a round mask, one half orange and the other half white. The mask is a minimalist winking smiley-face. Fixed to the creature's head is a conspicuously fake white halo mounted on a stick. The creature wears a blue medal with a yellow star around its neck. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2026/01/04

January 4, 2026
A tall figure wearing a dark purple overcoat grips a phone in its hand, staring in horror and appearing to stagger back from the screen. The figure is awkwardly proportioned, with strangely small legs and a very tall and massive upper body that give the impression of two people in the coat. The coat has two military-style stars on one shoulder, a round blue patch on the other, and an ID card pinned to the breast. The figure's head is round, with one eye and no nose, like a worm or some bizarre fish. Its eye is red. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/12/21

December 21, 2025
A rocky surface sits under a blazing white sun in a yellow-green sky. Sticking up from the surface are three tall, blue, pole-like figures, planted in the rock. The figures look like carved tree trunks. Two have craggy, Viking-esque faces and long beards. The third, on the right, has a more abstract, minimalist face, more like a modern sculpture. All three of them have reddish coloring on their faces and beards, like faded red paint. They lean slightly towards each other, as though conversing. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/12/11

December 11, 2025
A figure stands in a bleak blue space wearing a bright red suit and tie. The figure's left hand is behind its back, while its right holds a small dull-green suitcase. Where the figure's head should be are three long, powerful serpents. Each one has a haphazardly placed googly eye on its head. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/12/10

December 10, 2025
A brightly colored devil figure jogs through the dark. The figure is purple and blue, with a blurriness about the body that suggests speed, fur, or both. Its arms and feet are reddish-yellow; its feet glow with yellow sparks. It is wearing a blazing red-and-yellow devil mask, and the devil's beard is also giving off sparks. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/12/01

December 1, 2025
A dark night, with a glowing green celestial body—a moon? an orb? a ball of white light surrounded by a greenish glow—in the top right. Below it, knee deep in greenish fog, is a small figure. The figure has a large shiny spherical bomb for a head. The fuse is where its face would be, and it is casually lighting the fuse as though lighting a cigarette, the rest of it dimly illuminated by both the yellow flame of the lighter and the blazing white light in the sky. Its head has a faded red stencil of a warning triangle with an exclamation point inside it, in case the risks of the situation were unclear. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/29

November 29, 2025
An eerie green world. A tall, crumbling stone arch rises up from the ground, like the one doorway left after the rest of the house vanished. Above the archway, in the center, is a mask-shaped stone face, eyes in shadow, mouth stretched into an unpleasant smile. The mask is revealing teeth and sticking out a long pointed tongue. Sitting on the top right corner of the arch is a raven. Walking under the arch is a strange figure: arms a little longer than they ought to be, the outline of a top hat, and two glowing eyes. The figure is silhouetted, so not much in the way of details can be seen. This is an entirely green painting, signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/28

November 28, 2025
A figure wearing an indigo-colored full-body suit. The suit is wrinkled, looks sort of rubbery, and has an iridescent greenish sheen to it. The figure, though humanoid, does not look human, with long, thin arms and long, thin fingers. The suit—or maybe the creature inside it—has two pointed horns. Where the face would be is a circular faceplate, glowing green. Sticking out of the figure's back is a metallic clock key. The background is a hot pink. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/26

November 26, 2025
A red devil with horns and a pointed tail bounds over the ground on a clear blue starry night. The devil is carrying an enormous sack with a few red and yellow patches applied to it. The devil's hooves glow reddish-yellow. A large white crescent moon hangs in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/22

November 22, 2025
The interior of a church or cathedral: a hallway, tall arches, and tall windows with arched tops glowing white in a darkened area. The light from the windows reflects dully off the shiny floor. The walls and floor are the dull grayish-pink of stone in shadow. Dimly visible through the windows are the shapes of what looks like a crowd gathered outside. Inside, mostly silhouetted in the glare of the window and peering back, is a large, slightly hunched figure with horns. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/20

November 20, 2025
A dim hallway; something one would find in the basement of a huge building at night. A complex network of enormous dull-colored pipes stretches from one side of the scene to the other. Suspended below the pipes is a long white-green fluorescent light casting a pallid glare over everything. Below the light is a brown bulletin board with scraps of various pastel-colored papers attached to it. To the right of the board is a door with a glowing red "Exit" sign above it. The hallway itself has a colorless, possibly burgundy carpet—the kind of soulless decor one finds in underconsidered public spaces. Snaking along the floor, halfway out of the frame, is a creature. The only visible part of the creature is a long greenish tail with patches of symmetrically patterned red and blue dots that look bioluminescent. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/14

November 14, 2025
A ghastly, monstrous face; maybe a mask, maybe a monster. The face is garish red, illuminated yellow on the right side, with deep purple shadows on the left. It has a furrowed brow and craggy, heavily wrinkled skin. Its eyes are hollow and empty, and its mouth is sagging open, revealing a chaotic series of long teeth. Above its mostly hairless head is an incongruous white halo. The entire scene is on a gray background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/08

November 8, 2025
A hunched-over figure wearing a dark purple coat stands against a yellow background. The figure has a red hand, and is concealing its face with a round, red, wooden mask held on a stick. The mask has two round yellow circles for eyes, a large, rigidly triangular nose, and an empty, open mouth. The figure has, on its coat like badges, a smaller green mask that looks very similar to the red one, and a yellow button with the line-and-circle "power" icon. Three speech bubbles are coming from the figure, none of which has text in it. One is green, with a minimalist angry face in yellow lines; one is white on one side and navy blue on the other, with a flat mouth and X's for eyes; and one is white and contains a red triangle. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/06

November 6, 2025
A strange figure stands against a crimson-red sky. The figure is mostly dark, wearing a white shield-shaped mask with a single eyehole and no nose or mouth. The figure is holding a glowing yellow sword that resembles a lightsaber, and has a clock key sticking out of its back. In the background is the blurry purple skyline of a city. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/05

November 5, 2025
A tall figure with horns and a pointed tail stands in a dark green meadow under a greenish-yellow sky. The figure is holding out its hand. Streaking upwards from its hand is a blazing yellow ball of light that hangs in the sky like a sun. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/22

October 22, 2025
A large, stone-faced figure with a shaved head and dark overcoat and tie stands in a dark space, the background lit with a reddish glow. The figure's face is expressionless and lacking detail, like that of a sculpture or robot. The figure itself is illuminated by a greenish light that makes it look as if it is made of metal. On its left side is pinned a glowing, neon-yellow button with a smiley-face on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/20

October 20, 2025
A bright yellow figure walks forward tentatively in a red space. It is facing right. The front of it is illuminated white. Looming behind it, disproportionally huge and formless, is a giant dark shadow, punctuated with tinges of blue and green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/17

October 17, 2025
A mirror with an ornate black frame hangs on a gray wall. The frame has numerous flourishes and curlicues at the top and bottom. In the gray glass of the mirror is a blurry white figure of a person wearing a suit and hat. All that is visible of the person's face are two hollow dark eyes. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/15

October 15, 2025
A scarecrow stands silhouetted in black and dark purple against a red sunset sky. In the lower right is the yellow blaze of the setting sun, filtering through clouds. The scarecrow is wearing a hat and a long coat or cape that extends to the ground. The cape is ragged and riddled with holes. Green eyes glow under the brim of the scarecrow's hat. In the sky above are a few evidently scared crows. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/13

October 13, 2025
A person stands on the edge of a craggy cliff, holding a large hose. Pouring from the hose is an arc of rainbow liquid, straight into the mouth of a huge greenish creature. The creature is on the right of the painting, looming up in front of the cliff. It resembles a tyrannosaur, with thick, striated skin that looks almost like tree bark, and a shiny iridescent-green eye. In the background, a hazy red sun sits in a hazy gray sky above a blurry treeline. The sun is casting a reddish light on the person, the cliff, and the creature. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/12

October 12, 2025
An outrageously muscular, imposing figure looms behind a podium, under a red-orange sky, both arms in the air as though giving an impassioned speech. The figure wears a dark suit and tie. To the right, farther back, is a crowd, some of whom are holding signs. It's not possible to make out anything on the signs. What the crowd can't see is that the figure in front of the podium ends at the waist down. Beneath it, holding it up on a rod, is the puppeteer: a much smaller figure hiding behind the podium. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/10

October 10, 2025
A person wearing a flowing black cloak, a long purple dress, and a golden crown stands in a gray room in front of a huge circular radar display. The radar display has a heavy gold frame and several pipes leading up to the ceiling. On screen, the glowing green beam has just swept past eight white-green dots. The scene looks very much like the wicked queen from Snow White gazing into the mirror, except she's holding an iPhone. In the background are four tall, white, blurry windows. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/09

October 9, 2025
A small figure wearing a suit and tie hoists a giant iron ball that's nearly as tall as it is over its head. However, it doesn't have a head, so the ball is where its head would be. Its left leg is chained to the ball. Perched on top of the ball is a black bird with a long tail. The ball itself is scratched and dented. The figure stands in a pale green space devoid of anything else. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/05

October 5, 2025
The view from inside a car at night. Directly in front of the car, the road is illuminated by the headlights; bright yellow double-line to the left, single white line to the right. Dark woods loom all around, with the blue night sky above. Dead ahead, caught in the headlights, is a sinister figure: a humanoid creature with glowing white eyes and antlers like a deer's. To the right, clearly too late a warning, is a yellow diamond-shaped warning sign with the black silhouette of a leaping deer. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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