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2025/11/21

November 21, 2025
A person dances on a giant gray mound of garbage, the sort of thing you'd see in a landfill: a colorless mountain of unidentifiable objects. The person is holding a trumpet. The sky is pink on the horizon and blue above. Two birds circle in the sky. 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".

2025/11/19

November 19, 2025
A bizarre, dark-colored chunk of something hangs in a dismal drab-green and orange vacuum. The something looks like a large fragment of a building or infrastructure; maybe several fragments combined. It has numerous pipes and beams sticking off it at odd angles. Part of it is a large boxy chunk that contains a glowing yellow-green arched window. A figure wearing a suit and tie stands in the window, looking out. Attached to the left side of the box is a tall smokestack. A dish antenna is on top of the box. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/18

November 18, 2025
A small, strange figure wearing a metallic suit and giant mask stands against a reddish sky. The mask is a dull reddish-brass color, square, and made from several ragged chunks of metal welded together. It has two round holes for eyes and a smaller hole where the mouth would be. Each hole is very precisely machined, with a bezel around it. Sticking out of the right side of the mask is a small smoking chimney that looks like a snorkel tube. The figure's suit is also a tarnished brassy gold. Its arms are oddly long and thin, suggesting either a robot or an insect. A dull orange sun hangs in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/17

November 17, 2025
A person drives a bizarre contraption that looks like it is one bump in the road away from collapsing into a pile of rusty parts. The vehicle has four wheels like a car, but the front is slightly smaller than the rear. It is taller than it is long, with an open cockpit like a tractor and a heavy, L-shaped body. It looks like something between a farm machine and  a zamboni. The body is a dull rust-covered greenish brown, complex with beams, pipes, and patches. A red warning triangle is painted at the top; a yellow and black hazard strip is along one fender. It has a smokestack-like tailpipe, a glowing white light mounted on a pipe, and a headlight. The sky is a greenish-yellow; the ground is dark and shows evenly mowed grass. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/16

November 16, 2025
A dim forest: evening-blue background, tall purple trees looming out of the fog. In the foreground is a ground of dark grass and the trunk of a huge tree. Hovering at the base of the tree is a glowing yellow orb, a trail of light behind it. The light it casts turns the trunk a yellowish-red. In the background are a few other, dimmer orbs. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/15

November 15, 2025
A clear blue evening. At the edge of a cliff, a bizarre rocky structure extends into the air. It best resembles some weird crystalline outgrowth; a tower made of cubical boulders that have been fused together. Sitting on the top boulder is a person, dimly illuminated by a glowing yellow lantern. 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".

2025/11/13

November 13, 2025
A craggy mountain peak, cast red in the late afternoon sun. At the very top of the peak, appearing to grow out of it as the trunk of a tree might emerge from roots, is an odd towerlike structure that is clearly a dwelling, but looks more organic than architected. It has a winding staircase leading up to it, a small door, and two glowing windows. A few antennas are placed at the top. A blazing white sun hangs in the yellow sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/12

November 12, 2025
A clear blue evening. Walking alone in the dark is a figure wearing a dark suit and a hat with a brim. The figure is invisible; only its clothes are seen. It has a windup clock key sticking out of its back. In one invisible hand, it is carrying a glowing white smiley-face emoji like a lantern. The emoji has a soft yellow glow around it and is giving off yellow-green smoke. It casts a blazing greenish-white glare on the ground. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/11

November 11, 2025
A small, winding country road at night. The road—barely more than a path—cuts through a scrubby hill, dimly illuminated by the clear blue starry sky and the full white moon. The moon appears to be a glowing hole in the sky; a round, bank-vault-like door is next to it, and swung open. A rope dangles out of the moon. Clinging to it like a cat burglar is a dark figure, about halfway down to the ground, carrying a small suitcase. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/10

November 10, 2025
A smiley-face emoji with eerily empty black eyes, set on a black background. Below, it are two crossed lines, conveying the impression of a skull and crossbones. Both the face and the lines are rendered in blazing neon rainbow colors. A pattern of vertical lines partially covers the face and the crossbones. The vertical lines have their own colors which blur as they intersect the face and crossbones, giving the overall painting, a sort of drippy/rasterized effect. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/09

November 9, 2025
A lone figure walks through an abandoned city street on a pale green night illuminated by a full white moon. On the left, the buildings loom up and away. The street is just an empty space where no buildings are. 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".

2025/11/07

November 7, 2025
A strange object—somewhere between a boulder, a spaceship, and a rusty machine—hangs in the blue emptiness of a starry sky. The object is roughly obelisk-shaped, with a craggy purple-gray surface that has an iridescent sheen to it. It has a glowing yellow window at the top, and a set of green windows below, and a small, smoking pipe of a chimney on the left. 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".

2025/11/04

November 4, 2025
The word "Vote", in blazing, blurry rainbow colors on a black background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/03

November 3, 2025
A crimson sunset, somewhere barren and snow-covered. The sun is a blazing yellow dot on a purple horizon, casting yellow light across the snow. To the left is a small shack that looks like a convenience store. It has a large window, the harsh white light reflecting off the snow, with a small sign that reads "open" in neon green letters. Towering over the shack is a large illuminated sign like something you'd see for a gas station. The sign has a glowing yellow smiley face at the top, and a smaller white sign that says "open" in red letters. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/02

November 2, 2025
A grassy hill under a reddish-yellow sky. The entire scene is reddish. Winding down the hill is a small staircase. To the left of the staircase is a tall, unidentifiable object that looks like the remains of a robot or some sort of industrial machine. It is blocky, and has a dilapidated appearance. At the very top of it is a small, round hole. Hovering just beyond the hole is a white tadpole-shaped thing, perhaps a spirit that lives in the object. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/11/01

November 1, 2025
The side of a house at night. The roof and porch column are decorated with red, white, and green holiday lights. The lights are connected to a small grayish box on the side of the house. The box has two icons, one of a Halloween pumpkin and one of a Christmas tree. It also has a large switch next to the icons. The switch, which one can presume was set to the Halloween setting yesterday, is now in the Christmas tree position. The sky is blue and filled with stars. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/31

October 31, 2025
A bright yellow bird the approximate shape of a bowling pin—wide lower body, tall thin neck—stands on a boxy pedestal in a dark blue space. The bird has wispy plumage, two short, armlike wings, and stripes on its neck. Someone familiar with the work of Dr Seuss would recognize this bird as a Sneetch—and sure enough, it's got a green star on its chest. The star is crudely painted on, the paint dripping, and the bird is still holding the brush. In a similarly crude fashion, the label "# 1" is painted on the front of the pedestal. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/10/30

October 30, 2025
An unsettling figure stands against a greenish-yellow background. The figure consists of a dark coat, a round white mask, and a dark bowler hat. These items hover in the air, filled with nothingness, as though worn by an invisible person. The mask is a minimalist smiling face with round empty eyeholes, the slightest line of a nose, and an empty mouth. The eyes and mouth have thick borders, as though the mask is made of plastic. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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”.

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