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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”.

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".

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