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2024/10/05

October 5, 2024
A mountain overlooking the ocean at sunset. The sky is pink and blue, with the sun barely visible above the horizon. On top of the mountain is a small pair of binoculars on a post—you know, those things you see at national parks sometimes, where you have to put in a quarter. In this case, the most notable thing to look at isn't hard to see: a large saucer with glowing lights, hovering in the air above the ocean. No one is here to see it, however.

2024/08/10

August 10, 2024
A large body of water. On the right side of the painting is an outcropping of heavily wooded land jutting into the water: maybe an island, maybe the coastline. On a small beach, someone stands next to a fire, the dark smoke rising into the otherwise clear blue sky. To the right, in the dark of the trees, another figure stands next to the water. In the sky are two moons: a huge one, looming over the scene, and then a smaller one closer to the horizon. A few white birds circle over the fire.

2024/07/10

July 10, 2024
A solitary figure sits on a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere. The vast hull of a ship looming over the rock suggests that "nowhere" is the middle of the ocean. The ship, which looks like an ocean liner, is anchored to the rock by a cable tied to a small post. The sky is blazing yellow; the sun is high. The surface of the ocean fades into the horizon. This is a place that does not appear on any map.

2024/07/05

July 5, 2024
A giant creature that looks like a plesiosaur rises out of the ocean, its long neck curving up into a yellow-green sky. Sitting on the back of it is someone under a beach umbrella. A few seabirds float in the sky.

2024/07/03

July 3, 2024
A giant undersea creature, something between a whale and an anglerfish. It has a vast, yawning mouth and a yellow eye, which is a portal with the silhouette of a person in it. It appears to be a machine; the lure in front of it is on the end of a precisely geometrical support, like a streetlight. The fish has other mechanical trappings on it, such as things that look like metal plates, and bolts. Small fish swim nearby. This is a mostly blue drawing.

2024/03/25

March 25, 2024
A dark, cloudy evening—or perhaps morning—at sea. The sky is a dark blue, and the water is a very dark blue. Standing up in a very small boat is a ghostly greenish figure holding up a glowing green lantern. Far away, nearly on the horizon, is another small boat, with another pale figure holding up a lantern. Time passes slowly out here.

2023/11/03

November 3, 2023
An underwater scene: the ocean floor, craggy and uneven, with plants and coral rising up. It is very dark—the deep indigo you would see after sunset. Also on the ocean floor is what looks like the ruins of a submerged building with an eerie green light in one of the windows, as though someone is home. Above it hovers the huge, blurry shape of a submersible, its portals also eerily lit. The drawing is mostly black ink on deep indigo, with watery green-blue for the lights.

2023/05/29

May 29, 2023
An aerial view of a small, mostly wooded island. In the center of the island, dominating it, stand the crumbling remains of what looks like a high-rise apartment block or hotel. The uppermost stories especially are coming apart, as though from a fire. Elsewhere on the island are scattered outbuildings: a small boxy building next to a helicopter landing strip, a lighthouse at the northern tip of the island, the remains of an antenna to the south, and a rusting shipwreck in a small cove. In the top left is a compass symbol. This island has no name, and the few that even know if its existence are happy enough not to speak of it. There is little left to attract visitors: just woods, ruins, and an uneasy sense that perhaps this forgotten place is not as uninhabited as it appears.

2023/05/26

May 26, 2023
An old-style telephone booth stands on a small hillock at night, overlooking the ocean. The full moon is high in the sky. The sky is clear, filled with stars. No one is in the booth. Perhaps no one has been for quite some time.

2023/05/13

May 13, 2023
A map of two islands, a large one and a small one. The large one has forests, mountains, a tower, and pathways. At the north end of the island is a well-like opening to a tunnel or tube. On the smaller island, which is totally barren, stands a monster that looks like one of the Pac-Man ghosts. This monster has a face and a ragged lower edge. In the lower-left side of the map is the letter N with an arrow pointing up, signifying that, as on all well-drawn maps, North is up.

2023/05/07

May 7, 2023
A strangely shaped, pipe-like turret rises from the ocean floor. It's covered with seaweed that stands up like grass in a meadow. In the top-right, the sunlight reflects off the depths of the water. Although the turret appears malformed and broken in some parts, it has a closed, intact window on it, as well as a mailbox fixed to it via a pipe. Someone clearly lives here. No life is seen, ocean or otherwise.

2023/04/10

April 10, 2023
Someone wearing a very unique diving suit walks on the ocean floor. The suit has furry pant legs, a giant blue glass sphere for a faceplate, and a fedora, because one doesn't relinquish one's fashion sensibilities simply because one is at the bottom of the sea. The suit is connected to something by a black hose extending off the top of the screen. There are fish swimming near the figure.

2023/03/09

March 9, 2023
A white fish under the sea, seen in profile, upright almost like a seahorse. But the weird thing is that it has fur.

2023/02/28

February 28, 2023
Three fish swim in the deep water. Each fish has a giant human eye that takes up most of its body. Imagine if the eye on your face—not the eyeball, the eye shape itself—had fins and a tail. And there's three of them, deep in the ocean. Unsettling, no?

2022/05/17

May 17, 2022
A small, domelike building overlooks the ocean. Far off, a rocket takes off from a complex of buildings.

2022/03/16

March 16, 2022
A shipwreck with a single person standing in the bow

2022/03/10

March 10, 2022
A sailboat on the water at night

2022/02/23

February 23, 2022
A riderless bicycle flung by a giant black wave

2022/01/26

January 26, 2022
A person sitting in a boat in the middle of a lake, a bottle drifting close by

2022/01/23

January 23, 2022
A person stands with a telescope, looking out over the ocean during a fiery sunset.

2022/01/14

January 14, 2022
A lighthouse on a cliff casts a bright beam out over the ocean on a cloudy night, the full moon partially hidden behind clouds.

2022/01/03

January 3, 2022
A person stands on a runway at night, watching a plane prepare to land

2021/12/31

December 31, 2021
A view over the ocean at night, with a ship on the water and a comet in the sky
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