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2025/10/29

October 29, 2025
In a craggy, remote place, a witchlike figure stands next to a large black cauldron with glowing greenish smoke boiling up out of it into the dull blue evening sky. The cauldron is lit yellow-orange from below by fire. The witch isn't looking at the cauldron, though; they're looking at a laptop perched on a stool. While the screen is too small to be legible, someone familiar with YouTube will have the impression that the witch is watching a YouTube video tutorial. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/28

October 28, 2025
The mighty Captain America, resplendent in a blue suit with patriotic red and white stripes and a white star on the front. Captain America is, unfortunately, a skeletal figure, emaciated and hollow. His red boots and gloves are too large, and he seems barely able to hold his circular shield with the red and white stripes, a white star on a blue circle in the center. He stands in a gray, listless space, alone. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/27

October 27, 2025
The Statue of Liberty, an enormous green metal statue of a woman wearing a robe and carrying a book and torch, stands against a gray sky. The statue stands on a brown stone base. In place of a torch, it is holding up a glowing white logo for the satirical publication The Onion. Quoting Thomas More, “The devil...the proud spirit...cannot endure to be mocked.” The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/10/26

October 26, 2025
A dark, grim room illuminated with bleak greenish light by a single lamp hanging from the ceiling. Standing in the middle of the room, back to the viewer, is a detective wearing a dark suit and a hat. The detective is staring at a wall, on which are haphazardly taped various sheets of paper with text and handwriting on them. The papers show frenetic scribbles surrounded by red circles, annotations, and yellow highlighter markings. None of this text is legible except for that which is printed in red, on the largest sheet of paper. That text has the characters ΩΗΑΤΣΠΥΖΖΛΙΝΓΥΟΥΙΣΤΗΕΝΑΤΥΡΕΟΦΜΥΓΑΜΕ. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/10/25

October 25, 2025
A dark night, lit red with flames pouring out of a rusty, graffiti-covered dumpster. The yellow inferno towers above the dumpster, spitting smoke and sparks into the sky. Sitting to the left of the dumpster on a small ladder, holding two marshmallows above the flames on a stick, is a person. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/24

October 24, 2025
A gray, mostly cloudy winter night. The large black-and-gold hulk of a ship sits in Boston harbor under a dim white crescent moon. On deck, several dark figures are having a tea party, at least in the historical sense: they are hurling large wooden crates of cargo into the water. Spray-painted on the hull of the ship is a more contemporary symbol: a rudimentary sketch of a crown in white paint, with a red X over it. Fog hovers over the water. In the distance, the gray outline of Boston is visible, punctuated by a few yellow lights. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman”.

2025/10/23

October 23, 2025
A person stands on the rooftop of a tenement building in the middle of a city. It's a clear, starry night; the sky is a deep blue-green, dotted with bright stars. Some of those stars may be something else, though, going by the cluster of glowing yellow-green fireflies hovering around the person's outstretched hand. The fireflies seem attracted to the person. On the buildings all around, windows glow yellow. 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".

2025/10/21

October 21, 2025
A person stands, smoking a cigarette; an activity that most medical professionals agree is hazardous to one’s health. It is especially hazardous to one’s health when one is in an industrial facility surrounded by grim-looking gray-brown pipes, tanks, and machinery, all of which have “danger: flammable” symbols, “no smoking” decals, and other red and yellow warning signage. Hopefully the concrete walls and high ceiling will provide some measure of containment. 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".

2025/10/19

October 19, 2025
A wide blue open sea under a wide blue open sky. In the left of the sky, on the horizon, are some white clouds. A white sun sits in the top right of the sky. A blue-green stripe of light reflects off the water. This would be a lovely scene for sure if it wasn't portraying a place that used to have icebergs. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/18

October 18, 2025
A dark night in a barren place. On the right, a blaze of green fire casts a glow stretching up to the sky. Stepping from the fire is a figure, also made of green fire. It is clasping hands with a dark, slightly shorter figure standing to the left of the fire. 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".

2025/10/16

October 16, 2025
A person hammers in a fence post for a barbed wire fence. The unusual aspect is that both the post and the person are standing in empty space, several feet past the edge of a cliff on which the fence originates. The person wears blue jeans and a reddish shirt. The sky is a greenish-yellow. Gravity is relative. 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".

2025/10/14

October 14, 2025
A small orange car drives in a barren place that is just a flat grayish road and a blue sky that could be either day or evening. In the top left of the sky is a round white object  that is either the sun or a full moon. Dominating the scene is the vast, leafless hulk of a tree trunk, rising out of the car's rear trunk. The trunk has tinges of red and green, suggesting lichen. The tree rises all the way up to the top of the painting, and has many branches. Sitting on one of the lowest branches, overhanging the top of the car, is a black cat. In one of the upper leftmost branches sits an owl with yellow eyes. Hammered into the base of the trunk are three wooden steps, the kind you might have for a treehouse. 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".

2025/10/11

October 11, 2025
A tall, thin skyscraper stands against a bright yellow sky. This is not the most inspiring of skyscrapers: drab-colored and skinny, with only one blue window at the top right. Pits, scars, and patches line its sides. The biggest scar, however, is being actively created by a large woodpecker-like bird perched on the left side of the building. The bird is pecking a giant gouge into the building's corner. The bird is mostly dark, with an iridescent green stomach, a red-tinged tail, and a red plume on top of its head. In the top left of the sky is a round white sun. 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".

2025/10/08

October 8, 2025
A dismal gray concrete room somewhere, probably underground. The scene is greenishly illuminated by one long fluorescent bulb suspended from an unseen ceiling. Fixed to the wall is an enormous  round red button the size of a washing machine, mounted on a square metal box with four bolts. A thick pipe leads from the box up to the ceiling. To the left of the box holding the button are three ominous signs: a yellow sign with a triangular warning icon and illegible text; a dark sign with the radioactive symbol on it; and a white sign with a dashed red border and a skull and crossbones icon. This button, whatever it is, is not to be trifled with. Approaching the button to trifle with it is a dark human figure. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/07

October 7, 2025
A clear, starry night sky. The sky is a deep blue and covered with stars. Floating in the sky is the huge, ghostly form of a fish, outlined in iridescent green. Where the fish's eye would be is a white full moon. A number of the stars sit along the outline, defining it. Below is a remote, craggy mountain peak, with a dark blur of a treeline in the background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/06

October 6, 2025
A remote landscape under a yellow sky. A small figure shines a blazing white flashlight beam into a gaping tunnel entrance carved into craggy gray rock. In the background is a blurry greenish suggestion of a wooded mountainside. Crouched on the rock directly above the tunnel, and looking all too close to pouncing, is a lithe dark-colored animal that, despite its long tail and an elongated head, looks eerily humanoid. 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".

2025/10/04

October 4, 2025
A spread of photos and papers that look like they're fixed to a gray wall or a bulletin board. It's an eerie collection of items: grainy photos of lights in the sky and a triangular craft; a green X-ray of a head that does not look human; a black and white photo of a mummified head that looks distinctly alien; a sheet with "Evidence" on it in large red letters; another sheet with mimeographed purple writing, an indeterminate diagram, and a red heading of "Top secret"; and an ID badge. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/03

October 3, 2025
A large coat of arms, hanging in a dark blue space. The coat of arms is quarterly per pale and per fess Or and Gules, first and fourth Gules two crowns in fess Or, second and third Azure bendy of six Or; overall ensigned with a crown Or jewelled Gules. That is, it's a shield divided into four quarters. The top left and lower right quadrants are red with two gold crowns; the top right and lower left quadrants are  blue with gold diagonal bars. Above the shield is a heavy gold crown with red jewels. The lower right quadrant, however, has a big chunk hacked out of it, with a small, shadowy, hammer-wielding figure wearing one of the crowns stolen from the shield. There's no blazon terminology for this. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/02

October 2, 2025
A glowing white figure on a dark background gathers together many colored threads. The figure has long arms and fingers that seem to act as a loom. Falling from its hands is a long, woven, greenish-yellow bolt of cloth. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/01

October 1, 2025
A dull, gray, foggy day. A gray row of trees is visible in the background. In the foreground is a dark tree stump sticking up out of the hazy ground. Standing on the stump is a short, white figure with unusually long arms. The figure wears a black top hat with an iridescent green sheen. It is also wearing what looks like a dollar-store disguise: a pair of glasses with a cartoonish orange nose and a thick black mustache. It is glancing at a gold pocket-watch. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/30

September 30, 2025
A huge, brown, heavy vehicle sits on the side of the road in the middle of the desert, under a yellow sky and a blazing white sun. The side of the vehicle is crisscrossed with metal beams and striations. While we only see the front of it, it looks like it's designed to survive the end of the world. Its front wheel is as tall as a person. There is only one small green window visible on the side. On one fender is mounted a glowing orange light. A glowing red light sits higher up. Walking away from the vehicle, down the road, is a person carrying a red fuel can. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/29

September 29, 2025
A bent, rusty pipe sticks up out of the weeds. The pipe is relatively long and wide, and made of thick metal. Despite that, there are noticeable cracks at the end of it. Bolted onto its sides are a small faucet and another smaller pipe going back into the ground. Sticking out from its right side is a metal pole with a small, bluish wooden sign that has the word "open" on it in light-colored lettering. The sky behind the pipe is dark blue, with bright pink on the horizon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/09/28

September 28, 2025
A concrete mainframe computer the size of a vending machine sits on a tiny, barren island in the middle of a vast blue expanse. The front of the computer has a large gray tape reel and various controls and displays. A few birds circle above. One of the birds is sitting on top of the computer. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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