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2025/04/21

April 21, 2025
A large, concrete building with no windows; the only opening is a giant hole smashed in the side of the building. Extending from the hole is a platform crudely attached to the side of the building. A figure stands on the platform, holding a large hammer. The building has a red billboard on the roof that reads "OPEN" in yellow letters. A pale moon sits in a bluish-pink sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/20

April 20, 2025
A cube that looks like it's made of rusty metal hovers in space. A black cat sits on top of it. The cube has a question mark symbol on one of its faces. The composition is a combination of earthy and soft colors, the sky transitioning from a dark earth brown to gold on the horizon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

2025/04/19

April 19, 2025
Two figures stand on top of a rusty locomotive, dueling with crossed swords. The locomotive is crossing an arched bridge. The white beam of the locomotive's headlamp lights up the dark. The locomotive has bright red taillights. The sky is blue-purplish fading to pink, and filled with stars. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/18

April 18, 2025
A robot figure the color of rusting iron stands upright, featuring a large round head and holes for eyes. The body is boxy, with only cylindrical stubs for arms and a tie that hangs from the neck area. The head is being partially lifted up by a figure that seems to be climbing out of the robots body. Above the head is a glowing white halo. The background is textured shades of blue and green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/17

April 17, 2025
A figure stands on a scrubby hill in front of a small yellow fire. Smoke rises from the fire, drifting into the greenish sky. A small trail leads to the fire. In the background are the blurry outlines of tall buildings in varying shades. The background consists of blended yellow and green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/16

April 16, 2025
A scarecrow against a dark blue evening sky. The scarecrow wears a ragged white shirt with a greenish sheen, a red necktie, and a red-and-white-striped top hat. The scarecrow's head is a large, orange, pumpkin-shaped object with a single blue eye in the center. Sitting on the brim of its hat is a black bird. A fog hangs over the ground. 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".

2025/04/14

April 14, 2025
A person walks in a field during early evening. A blaze of yellow sunlight illuminates their back. They are pointing a white flashlight beam into a darkening blue sky. The beam is illuminating a planet, resulting in the crescent moon which sits in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/13

April 13, 2025
A lone car sits in a dark underpass, facing forward into a bright, misty light beyond the tunnel. There appears to be someone sitting in the car. The overpass structure is a textured, concrete brown, with a squarish support column on either side. Above the overpass, a single streetlamp stands against a pale, dull-colored sky. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman.”

2025/04/12

April 12, 2025
A lone figure stands on a darkened, textured ground, against a turquoise and yellow sky. The figure appears startled, stepping backwards, a large tobacco pipe falling out of its hand. The pipe is emitting a thin trail of smoke. The smoke rises into the air, forming the semi-transparent shape of a large ghostly creature with a long, wolflike snout, pointed ears, and faint eyes. The creature is reaching towards the person with both arms. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman.”

2025/04/11

April 11, 2025
A tall, angular church structure stands against a vivid orange sky, its windows glowing with a bluish light. The building features a central steeple with a dim clock face, topped with a crosslike rod, and a smaller gabled section beneath it with tall blue windows. A missile rises diagonally from the left, trailing yellow exhaust as it exits from a hatchway in the roof on the right. A hazy yellow sun sits in the orange sky. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman.”

2025/04/10

April 10, 2025
A bright green and yellow scene. In the foreground,a spindly, leafless tree grows out of a square pot. One of the tree's branches ends in a street lamp; another ends in a chimney giving off white smoke, and a television antenna. In the background, the blurry outline of a tall building looms large. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/09

April 9, 2025
A blue sky with a few clouds. Built on one of the clouds is a rainbow: a dilapidated rainbow that appears to be constructed from metal. It's not a pretty sight: holes in the rainbow expose the scaffolding underneath, and the colors are tarnished and rusting in places. The rainbow might even be unsafe, given that there is a fence around it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/08

April 8, 2025
Buried underground is a small, concrete room. On the left side is a glowing lightbulb casting a desolate yellow light. On the right side is a glowing blue screen. There is nothing else in the room. A tunnel leads up through the ceiling to an open hatchway. The sky is a darkening blue with a greenish tinge at the horizon. The ground is barren. No people are visible. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/07

April 7, 2025
A desolate place: rocky ground baking under an yellow-orange sky and a blazing white sun. A low fog covers the ground.  sticking up out of the ground is a very straight pole on which is placed a dark blue hat. The pole has pegs sticking out of it. A dark coat hangs from one of the pegs. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/04/06

April 6, 2025
Early evening. The sky is a darkening blue-green. The last yellow glow of the sun is still visible on the horizon. In the foreground is the husk of a tree: not more than a trunk and a few sparse branches. Hanging from one of the branches is a lot jack-o'-lantern with a smiling face. A white crescent moon sits in the top right of the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/05

April 5, 2025
A person stands against a bright orange background, holding a large white sign that looks like a speech balloon. The sign is covered with stars and writing of various sizes and colors: red, blue, and orange. The only recognizable symbols are stars and exclamation points. The composition of the sign vaguely suggests an American flag. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/04/04

April 4, 2025
A small hill at sundown. On the top of the hill is a small, leafless tree: just a trunk and a few sparse branches. Placed in the top of the tree is a house that, while it is small, still looks entirely too large to be supported by the tree. The underside of the house is bright pink and yellow from the sun on the horizon. The house has a door in the front and a glowing yellow window on the side. It has a dish antenna sticking out of the roof. Hanging from a lower branch is a mailbox. The horizon glows pink and yellow, giving way to a dark blue sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/04/03

April 3, 2025
A bright yellow-green sky. Sticking up into it, with no ground in sight, is a tall, thin, column of rock. A rough platform is unsteadily fixed to the rock. Nothing is on the platform. Also fixed to the rock, and extending out over the platform, is a thin metal rod with a wooden sign hanging from it. The sign has the word "open" on it in light green letters. Tied to the sign arm is a large shiny greenish-blue balloon. Nothing else is in the sky. 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".

2025/04/01

April 1, 2025
A figure who looks like Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly stands against a dull gray background, wearing a bright red nose and clown makeup. On his black top hat, he's got a yellow smiley-face badge. The hat has a purple, shiny ribbon around it, and a greenish sheen. Uncle Pennybags is wearing a black suit coat with a white button-down shirt and a maroon bowtie. His mustache is an unnatural, bluish-purple, and he has blue makeup around his eyes the way a clown would. His left hand is upraised, and he's holding a small puppet figure that is wearing a jester's cap and a dress with colored polkadots. The puppet is also wearing clown makeup and is smiling and winking. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/03/31

March 31, 2025
A hill at sundown. The upper part of the sky is starry and dark blue, fading to a golden glow on the horizon, especially on the right side. Sitting on top of the hill is a classic Macintosh computer, the size of a building. Its screen is facing to the right, and appears to be mostly dark except for a single white dialogue box in the middle of the screen. It's not clear what the dialogue box says, but anyone who's used a Mac in the 80s or 90s will recognize this as the "it is now safe to switch off your Macintosh" message.  While the computer is mostly in silhouette, the right edge is illuminated by the last rays of sunlight. On the left side, a small door is open at the base of the computer, revealing golden light from inside. A figure stands silhouetted in the doorway. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/03/30

March 30, 2025
A tall, thin figure stands in a red inferno, surrounded by yellow flames. It is gripping a tender of yellow fire leaping up from the ground. The fire curves towards its head and seems to envelope it in a whitish glow. A large clock key sticks out of its back. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/29

March 29, 2025
A person stands silhouetted by a huge blue-green aquarium window, staring in. A large fish dominates the upper left of the image, its open mouth facing right and its textured body rendered in shades of blue and green. The left half of it is out of the frame. The fish is much bigger than the person; about the size of a bus. Light reflects off it in iridescent shades from both above and below. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman."

2025/03/28

March 28, 2025
A tall, shadowy figure stands on a dark, blurry ground against an eerie greenish-yellow sky. The figure is covered in a black cloak that is open, revealing emptiness. If an invisible person was covered in a dark cloak, this is what it would look like. Hanging next to the figure in the air is a piece of cardboard with a hole cut in it that suggests an old TV screen. The figure's right arm is upraised; it is holding up a brightly colored puppet with a yellow smiley face and blue clothing, raising its arms in an exaggerated cheerful gesture. The puppet is inside the screen, as though it is on TV. A glowing full moon hangs in the sky. The painting is signed “Chris Silverman.”

2025/03/27

March 27, 2025
A dingy concrete room that is probably underground. Stacked in the left corner are four grimy metal orange barrels of the kind used to store toxic waste. Where warning decals would normally be applied are yellow smiley-faces. The only light in the room is the greenish glow from a long fluorescent tube suspended from the ceiling. On the back wall is a doorway with steps leading up into darkness. To the left of the door are a few light switches and a featureless gray box. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/26

March 26, 2025
A tall orange building stands under a heavy, foreboding sky. The upper part of the sky is a heavy brownish gray; towards the horizon is a reddish glow. The building stands on the right side of the painting. It's not modern architecture, and looks more like an old fortress: heavy walls, very few windows. It is orange, and almost seems to glow in the dark surroundings, as though it's lit by sunlight filtering through somewhere. The only sign that it's inhabited is a small window on the right side of the building, which is in shadow. That window glows an eerie green, casting a dull glow on the ground beneath it. A thin, winding trail leads away from the building towards the viewer. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/25

March 25, 2025
Several green forested hills stretch under a greenish sky. Floating in the sky like a balloon is a small cabin. The cabin has no obvious means of staying in the sky, and floats of its own accord. It is tethered to one of the hills by a long rope. Moss hangs from the underside of the cabin, and from several points on the rope. The cabin has two yellow windows and a door with small yellow windows on it. Smoke rises from the cabin's chimney. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/24

March 24, 2025
The end of a concrete dock at night. The sky is a deep blue and filled with stars. A low layer of greenish mist covers the water. The dock is low and flat, with a few leaking pipes on the side. On the dock itself is a small, boxy shack with a large dish antenna mounted on the roof. The shack and antenna are lit on the right side by a pale source of light located offscreen; maybe the headlights of a parked but running car. On the left side of the shack, facing out to sea, is a glowing white light. At the very end of the dock, a figure stands, holding a glowing yellow lantern out over the water. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/23

March 23, 2025
An environment that is mostly red and yellow flames. The ground is a reddish blur with slight darker tones, and appears to be an inferno. Above, in the top right, is a glowing white flaming square with a red question mark in it, similar to the power-up boxes in the Mario universe. Below, slightly to the left, is a gray stone block of the same size with greenish highlights. Placed on top of it is a circular glinting treasure, something between a gold coin and a glass bead. In the lower left corner, standing directly in the inferno, is a small figure with a flaming white halo above its head. Above it, high in the sky, circles a large birdlike figure. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/22

March 22, 2025
A darkening evening: The sky a navy blue with yellow-gold and lighter blue on the horizon. In the top right is the bluish sliver of a moon. In the foreground is what is either a very tiny tree with a large bird, or a normal-sized tree with an enormous bird. Either way, the tree is stunted and has no leaves and few branches. Hunched on one of the topmost branches is a large owl-like creature. Most of it is in silhouette; what is visible are two hornlike ears and two large, glowing yellow-green eyes. The last golden rays of sunlight glint dully off its feathers. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/21

March 21, 2025
A darkened area that looks like it could be the remoter corner of some museum: a vast, blank wall with an open doorway in the lower right. Yellowish light is coming from the left side, although the source of the light is unseen. The right side of the painting is shifting into darkness. Suspended above the doorway is a small, greenish sign with "Goal" on it in gold, uppercase lettering. The sign is hanging from a bar that extends from the top right side of the painting, high above the door. The bar also has a large iron bell hanging from it. Anyone who's familiar with the Mario universe will probably recognize this. Blocking the doorway is a red cordon of the sort that you'd see in a museum or gallery. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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