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2025/05/06

May 6, 2025
A desolate scene: a small, dark planet hangs in a green space, a greenish glow around it. There is nothing on the planet except a lit streetlight with a “bus stop” sign fixed to it; no signs of life or anything. The street lamp casts a yellow light. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/04/15

April 15, 2025
The surface of the moon: a flat gray expanse under a black, starry sky. A white spotlight beams down from above, the source unseen. An astronaut leaps in the spotlight, performing what looks a little like a ballet move. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/02

April 2, 2025
An orange sky, and below it, a small castle turret on its own. The turret sits on a dark patch of grass. An arched doorway glows with yellow light.  Far off in the distance, on another hill, is the blurry silhouette of what is presumably another turret, a yellow window visible. High in the sky sits a yellow crescent that seems too large to be the moon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/01/17

January 17, 2025
An empty glass flask—spherical body, long cylindrical neck—floats in a starry black sky. The flask is mostly colorless with a slight greenish sheen. Sitting on the rim of the opening is a hazy, greenish human figure, arms and legs blurry and elongated like a ghost. The figure has one arm raised. The figure is maybe a quarter the size of the flask and could easily fit inside it. The painting 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.

2024/11/02

November 2, 2024
A large dark green metal sphere floats like a balloon in a blue-green sky. The balloon has a cable fixed to it below, and is haphazardly bolted together from various metal plates. Two small pipes are sticking off of it on the lower right. Sitting on top is a person in a chair, holding a telescope up to their eye. The telescope is trained on a bright round object in the distant sky.

2024/10/18

October 18, 2024
A rocky fragment of what appears to be a planet hangs in starry space. On top of it is a small red car, headlight beam stretching out into the unknown.

2024/10/12

October 12, 2024
The surface of the moon, flat, with mountains in the background. Hovering above it in a bubble is a person floating in front of a laptop. The sky is filled with stars. The earth is visible in the top right.

2024/09/15

September 15, 2024
A yellow-green object with three legs floating in a starry blue sky. The object is shaped roughly like one of those large American mailboxes that you see on street corners. On one side, there is a round glass portal window. On the other side, there is a small door with its own round window. The object has a few antennae and spikes sticking off it. Floating in the larger portal window is a goldfish.

2024/09/13

September 13, 2024
A dull gray background. Hurtling from the sky is a huge asteroid, white heat glowing around it and streaming from behind. Directly in its path, seconds from impact, is a person holding up a phone, taking one last photo.

2024/07/31

July 31, 2024
A tall, narrow house with an upper story slightly overhanging the front porch and a sharp, sloping roof. A rear window on the first floor is lit with an eerie, greenish light. A tall window on the second floor is also lit with the same light. Framed in the window is a robot, staring out. The top of the roof has several antennas. Sitting on the steps of the front porch is a human figure, partly illuminated by the porch light. The sky is pink, as though the sun is going down or just coming up. The only visible celestial object is a bright white dot, too small to be the moon and too large to be a star.

2024/07/30

July 30, 2024
A person sits on a dark, planetlike sphere hanging in a blue, starry sky. The sphere is about the size of a small house relative to the person. The person is sitting at a small round cafe table, illuminated by a ceiling lamp hanging from above. What the lamp is attached to is not clear. In the sky to the right is a crescent moon.

2024/06/24

June 24, 2024
The cavernous industrial interior of a spaceship. The walls appear to be made of some harsh, concrete-gray substance, and have various odd striations and geometric formations. The floor is flat and gray. In the lower right is a circular pipe or something in the wall; in the top right, there are three glowing vertical bars of greenish-white light. In the center is a huge round window through which is visible a black, deep-space sky full of stars and a blue planet. The planet has a slight blue color to it, and does not look like there is any life on it. Sitting on the lower part of the window is a gray cat with its tail hanging down, looking out through the window.

2024/05/01

May 1, 2024
A metal sphere, floating in deep space. The sphere is a dull greenish color, the color of tarnished metal. On its left side is a round door with a round portal window in the center of it. Hanging above the door is a small bell. On the right side of the sphere is a round, open window with a small plant in an orange flower pot. On the top of the sphere is a glowing red light, suggesting this is some sort of buoy. Also similar to a buoy is the orange cable, extending from the bottom of the sphere, seemingly anchoring it in place. In the background, the black sky is filled with stars.

2024/04/24

April 24, 2024
The Voyager I spacecraft in deep space. The craft has a giant radio dish. Dimly visible behind it are some radio masts and panels. Floating below it is a small gray maintenance van with an orange flashing light on top and the NASA logo on the side. Floating in front of the dish, evidently making some repairs, is an astronaut tethered to the van. Behind is a black sky filled with stars.

2024/04/11

April 11, 2024
A dark, starry night. A large crescent moon hangs in the sky, so large and close that the craters and surface texture are visible. Below is a small pond, surrounded by grass and a few trees. Standing by the pond, white glow reflected in the water, is a ghostly white figure.

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.

2024/04/04

April 4, 2024
A tall, glowing white figure stands astride the curved horizon of a dark planet, reaching over to touch hands with another glowing white figure, this one slightly smaller, on the other side of the planet. There is an eerie green auroral glow on the horizon. Above, many green-tailed meteors hurtle through a starry sky. Anyone who remembers browsing the web in the late 1990s might be reminded of something.

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2024/02/12

February 12, 2024
A crimson sky, suggesting sunrise or sunset. Dominating the foreground is a vast radio dish, rendered in black and cement gray, mounted on a heavy industrial base of beams, pipes, and concrete. There is a red light mounted at the top of the dish, and a small green light over the doorway to the installation. In the sky, to the right, in the direction that the telescope is pointed at, is a single bright star.

2023/12/24

December 24, 2023
A small figure wearing a space suit, floating in space. Inside the figure's spherical glass helmet floats a goldfish. The figure is short, both arms outstretched. The stars are all around. The drawing is pale blue-green ink on a black background, with white highlights. The fish is gold-tinted.

2023/12/20

December 20, 2023
A small pond surrounded by dark woods. It's late afternoon, and the clear blue sky above the treeline is starting to get pink. There are no visible clouds. The pond is clear and reflective; a low fog hovers over it. In the sky hang two planets, both a ghostly white the way the moon is when it's out during the day. One planet is huge, and looms over the scene. The more distant one is closer to the horizon. Arcing into the sky, cutting between them, is the tiny white dot of a rocket ship, smoke billowing out behind it. A few birds are visible flitting over the trees.

2023/12/11

December 11, 2023
A clear, starry night. In the middle of a meadow stands a tall, boxy stone column with the word "here" carved into it. Visible in the sky behind it is an asteroid flaming towards earth, presumably headed for the designated landing spot.

2023/07/13

July 13, 2023
A small, cratered asteroid hangs in space. It's roughly spherical, although heavily lopsided and pockmarked. Sticking out of the top of it is a large, billboard-like sign with the word "closed" on it. The sign is about as wide across as the asteroid; this is either a very big sign or a very small asteroid. Behind the asteroid stretches the vast, starry expanse of deep space.

2023/06/21

June 21, 2023
A large, asteroid-like chunk of soil-covered rock hangs in space as though it's floating. The space it hangs in is not black, like night; more a deep blue, like early morning or late evening. Weeds and grass sprout from the asteroid; sand and debris crumble from the sides, falling downwards. The asteroid has a door and a window in it. Both are illuminated, as if the interior is inhabited, or at least inhabitable. A cable has been run out the door and dangles into the emptiness, the end of it unseen. Hanging from the cable is a person who is either climbing into or out of the asteroid.

2023/05/16

May 16, 2023
An evening scene out in the woods. A giant telescope is mounted on a conical cement base planted on a small grassy promontory. The telescope seems to be in a clearing, with shadowy trees in the background. Above the telescope is a blazing, four-pointed star. However, the telescope is not pointed towards the star, but towards the ground behind it, and light streams from the end of the telescope, as though it's a spotlight. A person is caught in the spotlight beam.

2023/05/09

May 9, 2023
A view from the surface of a moon. Not necessarily ours. A vast, barren, rocky landscape with a crater or two. A mountain range is dimly visible in the background. On the right is a cliff, with a few structures on it: something like a lighthouse, or smokestack, and a construction of iron girders. In the sky over the landscape hangs a large planet that is clearly occupied, given the visible outlines of continents formed by pinpoints of light. Another, smaller planet is visible farther away. The sky is filled with stars, forming a Milky-Way-like strip.

2023/03/15

March 15, 2023
A night scene, with a starry sky. A van, seen from the front, sits in an open area, not moving, lights out. On top of the van is a giant satellite dish, pointed skyward towards a full moon. No one is visible in the van, but there is a lit window at the rear of the van, suggesting someone is home and maybe controlling the dish.

2023/02/01

February 1, 2023
A figure sits on a blue sphere suspended in starry space, staring at a glowing red cloud a ways off. The figure holds a floating yellow ball, as though about to toss it into the cloud.

2023/01/29

January 29, 2023
A small robot with a communications dish and a headlight drives across a mountain in the early evening.

2022/12/25

December 25, 2022
An observatory on a snow-covered hill, with an unusually bright star gleaming in the sky (which is most likely a supernova and not a celestial omen if we're being coldly practical here)

2022/08/25

August 25, 2022

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