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2024/04/12

April 12, 2024
A mountain in the middle of nowhere, under a blazing yellow and crimson sky. Planted at the very peak of the mountain is a signpost with two signs: one pointing forward, reading "OK", and one pointing backwards, reading "Cancel".

2024/04/08

April 8, 2024
A full solar eclipse. The sun hangs in an eerie, purple sky, fully obscured, only a green and white corona visible. Below are several craggy mountains, also illuminated with a weird green light. On top of the closer mountain stands a small figure wearing a cloak, both arms raised to the sky, a staff clutched in the right arm. The figure appears to be staring directly at the sun without eclipse glasses, which one should never do, even if one is a sorcerer summoning the apocalypse.

2024/04/05

April 5, 2024
A person stands in a rocky, mountainous area. The person is on a craggy open peak, with wooded skylines on both sides. Directly below the person, as if carved into the rock, is the huge form of a stone giant that may or may not be in the process of waking up. The giant is bald with a heavy, jowly face and eyes hidden beneath a heavy brow. The horizon is afire with either a sunrise or a sunset. Above, a hawk turns in the sky. This is probably not what Lebanon, New Jersey looks like, but then again, I've never been there.

2024/03/31

March 31, 2024
A glowing white humanoid figure climbs out of a trap door in the ground. In the background is the blurry suggestion of a wooded hill. The sun hangs high in yellow sky. Two birds fly overhead.

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.

2024/03/05

March 5, 2024
A blazing yellow sunset over black mountains. From a vantage point high on a hill, a large, furry creature with two pointed ears looks down at a small building in the valley. The building has one large open door, like something on a garage or warehouse, and some smaller windows in the second wing of the building. The large door is spilling greenish light out onto the ground. Green light is also visible in the other windows. The ground of the valley is also covered in yellow light; the building is casting a shadow. We are looking at the creature from the back, but the front of the creature is lit with yellow light.

2024/02/19

February 19, 2024
A huge, rocky cliff jutting into the ocean. At the top of the cliff, somewhat set back from the edge, is a small white house with an orange roof. Someone is walking away from the house towards the edge of the cliff. Farther down along the side of the cliff is the large black opening of a cave. Someone is standing in the cave, holding up a lantern that is illuminating the sides of the cave with yellow light. All around stretches the vast blue sky, with a scattering of seagulls in the top left. There is a hazy suggestion of white clouds on the horizon. The ocean is green.

2024/02/14

February 14, 2024
A high cliff, somewhere in the desert. It's a gray day, the clouds heavy in the sky. Gathered at the edge of the cliff are two people, with a third running towards them. Directly above them, relatively close to the ground, is flying a very futuristic, triangular aircraft. Visible in the background is the blurry outline of another natural formation; a tower of rock. This is a primarily black and gray drawing; the only color is a tiny green light on the underside of the aircraft.

2024/02/13

February 13, 2024
An enormous stone head: a mouth, eye, and nose carved into a tall obelisk. The eye is a hole drilled right through the stone. The head is situated in the middle of nowhere, on top of a mountain, covered with snow. Visible in the background is a snow-covered treeline of another mountain. The head is covered with garish graffiti: neon pink, white, and green. Next to the head is a person, making the head look the size of a three-story building. Up in the sky is a hawk; the person appears to be signaling to it. The sky is the dull cloudiness of a winter day, with a weak sun filtering through.

2024/02/11

February 11, 2024
A mountaintop, lit red on the right side, with a small figure of a person also standing on the right side, looking taken aback. The person is staring at a huge, inhumanly colored figure, covered with colored bars that vaguely suggest a skeleton. Perhaps the bars are painted on the outside of the figure, or showing through from inside. They are neon colors: pink, blue, and green, with the figure's head and chest area a glowing white. The giant figure has a green halo above its head, and appears to be leaping into the air. The sky behind it is an apocalyptic yellow-green. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

2024/01/30

January 30, 2024
A desert sun, low in the sky. Below it is a red mountain with a small figure standing at the very top of it. The figure is holding a string attached to a huge black balloon, high above the ground. The sky is mostly shades of yellow, and the mountain is black, with red highlights.

2024/01/23

January 23, 2024
A cloudy sunrise or sunset. Waves of red clouds hover over a ragged mountainous horizon. Hanging in the sky is an enormous planet, partially covered by clouds and lit from below by the sun. This is a primarily red and black painting.

2024/01/21

January 21, 2024
A vast sky filled with heavy, billowing clouds. Below it is a foggy lake or river, with mountains on the right. It's mostly dark, in the way that a very cloudy late-afternoon feels like nightfall. Floating on the water is a small boat with a person sitting in it, illuminated by a single white lantern.

2024/01/20

January 20, 2024
A tower of rock rises up from the desert floor. It's around dusk; the sky is still blue, but the sun is gone. The only remnant of it is a reddish glow on the right side of the tower, and a pink area on the horizon. A pale pink moon sits high in the sky. To the right of the tower, a futuristic triangular aircraft reminiscent of an F-117 Nighthawk cruises past, its underside reddish in the remaining sunlight.

2023/12/22

December 22, 2023
A desert at either sunrise or sunset. The sky is burning shades of yellow and crimson; the desert floor is a dark bluish-black. The horizon is mostly flat, punctuated by one tower of rock in the distance. Stretching towards the viewer is the dim blue line of a road. A single car is visible, the yellow headlights glowing dimly. Hovering above the scene are two huge, spherical balloons, reflecting the colors of the sky. They look like the size of planets, but are probably smaller. Hanging beneath them are tiny baskets. Both have small, glowing lights on the top.

2023/12/21

December 21, 2023
A view over a vast, mountainous forest: hills covered with heavy woods. The hill closest to the viewer is dark brown, with a small cabin on top of it. There is a light on, and smoke drifting up from the chimney. On the hill beyond it looms a massive dish antenna; something the size of a football field or larger. The sky is heavy with wispy clouds, a weak sun filtering through. The whole scene is a brownish yellow, suggesting a hazy, muggy day. Above it all circles the small form of a hawk or eagle.

2023/12/08

December 8, 2023
A tall, jagged, rocky promontory, of the sort you'd find in a desert. There are blurry suggestions of similar formations in the background. The red sun blazes high in the sky. This looks like high noon on some remote desert, perhaps even on a different planet. The drawing is composed primarily of four colors: a yellow sky, a red sun, and the black rock that's blazing red on the side towards the sun and a deep blue on the side facing away from it.

2023/11/28

November 28, 2023
A tall, wedge-shaped rock. It looks like a stone spearhead planted point-up in the ground. Emanating from two points in the rock is a ghost. A moon—or maybe the sun?—hangs in the sky. The drawing is black ink on a yellow background. The ghost is white, and the celestial body is also rendered in white.

2023/11/13

November 13, 2023
A flat plane: maybe a desert, but it kind of looks like a frozen lake. In the distance are craggy mountains. Positioned on the plane nearer to the viewer, like an iceberg poking out of the ice, is a sharply angular mountain or boulder. Walking across the plane next to the boulder is a small figure, casting a shadow. The drawing is dark blue ink on the light blue background. In the sky, the clouds are rendered in white.

2023/11/06

November 6, 2023
A person stands in the middle of a small trail that runs over the top of a hill. In front of them, quite a ways away, the trail cuts a small valley through a woodland. This valley is the horizon, behind which the sun appears to be rising or setting. The light blazes through the opening in the trees, sharply silhouetting the figure in the foreground. Another person is standing on the path there, looking back. The drawing is bright orange ink on a cobalt blue background.

2023/09/04

September 4, 2023
A small path—or perhaps a brook—in the foreground, winding across a barren, uneven landscape. To the right of it is a small sign post. Looming vast in the distance is a large, foggy shape of a mountain. The sky is filled with a turbulent collection of clouds surrounding what is either the moon or the sun.

2023/08/30

August 30, 2023
A mountain peak, a clear blue sky, and a bright yellow hot air balloon drifting in the top right. In the top left is an eagle, high above the mountain. There is no more to this place than this.

2023/08/24

August 24, 2023
A sun blazes over a mountain valley. On the left side of the drawing, sloping down towards the right, are a series of mountain peaks, the ridgeline highlighted in red. The sky itself is a garish, impressionist blend of red and green. The sun is white. The shaded part of the mountains are black and blue. The drawing is rendered in a rough, impressionist texture, suggesting either a woodcut or heavy brushstrokes.

2023/07/31

July 31, 2023
A giant, tree-covered mountain peak in the shape of a head. The head has a sober, intense expression, and is staring across the valley in front of it at a small figure standing in the foreground. Above are a few wisps of clouds.

2023/07/29

July 29, 2023
A figure stands on a mountain. Hovering over the mountain is a white, abstract, rectangular shape. It has various folds and contours, but it's not cloth. It's the size of a building; about three times taller than the figure staring at it. The lower edge of it is faded, as if obscured by fog. In the top right corner is a circular indentation whose purpose is unclear: could be a knob, a bolt, even an eye. The sky is otherwise clear except for a few wispy clouds.

2023/07/07

July 7, 2023
A very pointed, nearly perfectly conical hill, covered with grass. Balanced on the point of the hill, sort of like a platter on someone's head, is a flat platform, on which stands a large, stone statue. The statue has a humanoid face, but is roughly cut, with no arms or legs, and looks like a religious figurine. Sitting right under the platform, keeping it balanced on the tip of the hill, are two figures. One of them is looking at a phone. The sky is mostly clear, with a few wispy clouds.

2023/06/17

June 17, 2023
Imagine a mountain-shaped boulder mixed with a house: a rough chunk of rock with arched windows and roof-points sticking out of it. At the top is a small cupola with a bell; atop the cupola is a vaguely cross-shaped lightning rod. Now imagine that this entire thing has four wheels and a large, spacious windshield up front, like a cargo van. The effect is of a mobile home that's also a mountain, with various architectural enhancements. Visible in the windshield is a driver, shadowy, and indeterminate.

2023/06/14

June 14, 2023
A figure stands on a blurry plain in front of a vast, snow-covered mountain. Above the mountain hangs a giant moonlike planet.

2023/06/13

June 13, 2023
A spike-shaped, rocky mound with three protrusions at the top, sort of like a rough, lopsided turret. It's rough enough to look like a natural formation, but weird enough to make you wonder. above it is a hazy blaze of light, as though something divine is about to appear on the turret.

2023/06/08

June 8, 2023
A hellishly crimson day: a cloud-choked sun at high noon hangs over a wooded mountainside. The sun is dimly reflected in the lake below. Everything is red, everything is washed out. The air looks heavy, either with humidity or smoke.

2023/05/12

May 12, 2023
A broad, desert expanse; the heat of a desert afternoon. Mountains shimmer in the distance. You're standing on a grassy hilltop overlooking a plain. Placed on the hill, for no apparent reason, is a tall, weathered sign with the word "diner" on it. A bird perches on the sign; a vulture circles overhead.

2023/05/05

May 5, 2023
A lonely, sharp mountain top on which stands a small, twisted tree with few branches and no leaves. Hanging from the tree is a mailbox and a red decorative sphere. Built into the branches is a small, spherical dwelling that looks a little like a wasp nest. The dwelling has a circular window in it, brightly lit. Also built into the branches is a platform with several brown cardboard boxes stacked on top of it; the kind that would be delivered from Amazon.

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