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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".

2025/03/20

March 20, 2025
A strange hunk of something stands in a foggy area under a cloudy greenish sky. In the sky are the hazy forms of not one but two blazing white suns. The something looks like it is constructed of concrete: a lone fragment of what was probably an unusual, perhaps alien structure, going by the irregularly placed round windows. Rebar sticks up from the rough edges. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/19

March 19, 2025
A blurry desert scene, like something from a dream. The sky is a bright yellow, with a blazing white blur of a sun in the top right. The landscape is flat and reddish brown, punctuated by mountains and a tall, towering promontory. Hovering on the sky, far sharper and clearer than anything else in the scene, is a shiny reddish saucer, the sunlight glinting off of. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/18

March 18, 2025
A dull, cloudy evening: The sky is a greenish blue and foggy. In the foreground is the large silhouette of a dark house with no lights on anywhere. The house is seen in profile, a porch on the right side. In the distance, dimly visible in the fog, is the outline of another house, this one with a single window glowing yellow in the upper story. On the roof of the first house sits a lone figure, shining a flashlight off into the fog. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/17

March 17, 2025
A dark forest in the dead of night. Dark purple tree trunks loom in the background. Stepping among them, seemingly rising up out of the ground, is a tall, ghostly figure glowing greenish-white. One of the figure's legs touches the ground, and is surrounded by a greenish glow; the other is disappearing into a hole in a tree trunk. The whole scene is fringed with a bioluminescent green. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/16

March 16, 2025
A red figure with horns tentatively touches one of a multitude of glowing orange tentacles that loom out of the darkness. The nature and source of the tentacles is unclear; the effect suggests a giant anemone, or even a plasma globe. The figure is standing in a red grassy field. All around is darkness. This is not a sex thing, please don't be gross on here. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/15

March 15, 2025
A bright pink figure with very slight undertones of green and yellow stands against a light blue background. The figure is wearing a mask that looks like Susan Kare's "talking head" icon: a black-and-white, minimalist, rectangular face with a neutral expression. The figure is holding up a spray can that looks like the MacPaint spray can icon: again, a mostly black-and-white icon with square dots spraying from it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/14

March 14, 2025
A dark, cloudy, city night. The sky is heavily overcast; the whole scene is an oppressive brownish gray. In the foreground, a figure stands on the roof of a building. The figure is in an action pose, as if they're ready to leap into the sky. A low fog surrounds them. They have a Greek letter "pi" on the back of their outfit, and two squarish horns on their head. Hovering in the sky, projected against the clouds, is a ghostly greenish spotlight that also has a Greek letter "pi" at its center. In the distance are other skyscrapers, the windows dimly illuminated in the fog. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/13

March 13, 2025
A small dark-colored creature sits like a cat against a dull green background. There are hints, however, that it is not a cat: the dragon-like claws on its paws, the long thin tail, and the weird blue-green metallic sheen on its skin. What its head looks like, no one can say—it's wearing a fearsome mask larger than it is. The mask is white like a clown's face, with a grinning red-lipped mouth; a long tongue that starts out red and ends in glowing radioactive green; a bright red nose; and wild blue eyes. The mask has two pointy, red-tipped horns. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/12

March 12, 2025
A sheer cliff. Built on the very edge, to the point that it is hanging off the edge, is a small, rickety house. It is leading over the emptiness at an ominous angle, propped up by one board against the side of the cliff. Hanging in front of the house, suspended from a long, slapdash signpost, is a small sign that just says "Open". In the back of the house is a window, in which a person is standing. There is another small window under the roof peak. The sky is filled with yellow clouds. A blazing white sun sits in the top right. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/11

March 11, 2025
A person standing on the edge of a rocky point, staring off into the void. They are facing left. Above them is a light purple sky covered with stripes of fluorescent green clouds. Despite the relatively light color scheme, the scene is at night. Greenish fog hangs around the ground. A hazy half-moon sits in the top right. A scattering of stars is visible. Streaming from the person's face is a beam of blazing white light, like that from a lighthouse. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/10

March 10, 2025
A strange figure with four legs, no arms, and a large eye. The figure is shaped roughly like a Pac-Man ghost, with a rounded head. Each of its feet is wearing a shoe. It looks like it is hastily assembled from sheets of copper, or some other metal with a dull green patina. There are visible seams across its body, and some wrinkling that suggests cloth. A few bolts are also visible. It has a large yellow eye with a similarly metallic iris and a red pupil. Hanging above its head is a glowing white halo. It is standing on a bright yellowish-green background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/09

March 9, 2025
A stocky figure with horns stands on a thin, rickety bridge with moss hanging from the underside. The sky is a light green, accented by hazy yellow sunlight. A yellow sun sits in the top right, partially obscured by glowing yellow clouds. The figure is holding a red umbrella with white polkadots over a bluish egg positioned on the bridge in front of it. The umbrella looks a little like a mushroom. The figure is mostly dark colored, with iridescent highlights of green, purple, and red. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/03/08

March 8, 2025
A blazing crimson sky, with a yellow sun hanging low over a distance hill, casting yellow light on the clouds. In the foreground, a hill slopes sharply down to the right. Hurtling down it is a large boulder, the sunlight glinting off it. Chasing along behind the boulder is a person. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/07

March 7, 2025
A headless figure walks on red stilts in a dark burgundy space. The figure is a reddish gold, with paler blue light reflecting off the front. Where its head would be is the hook of a yellow coat hanger. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/06

March 6, 2025
The middle of nowhere: a foggy, barren place that could be in the world of the living or somewhere on the outskirts of it. The ground is a charcoal gray, fading into a haze of fog. A small trail winds through it. Ahead, sticking up out of the fog, is a tall signpost with an oval "Open" sign at the top of it. The sign looks like something you'd see in the window of a gas station: red, all-caps LED letters, framed by a circle of blue LEDs. Standing in front of it, approaching it on the trail, is the dim outline of a person. The person is less than half the size of the sign. A single bird, barely visible in the fog, circles in the sky. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/05

March 5, 2025
A dark blue night with a full moon in the top left of the sky. A tall ghost, white with a blue hazy glow about it, moves through the grass and fog, right hand out in front of it. It is wearing an orange shield-shaped mask that is featureless except for a single eye, looking to the left. The ghost has a white clock key sticking out of its back. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/04

March 4, 2025
A small raft sits in the middle of a large body of water. The sky and the water are a bright sunny mix of red and yellow; it's not clear where the sky ends and the water begins. There is a suggestion of fog. Dominating the scene is a vast black pirate flag—a ragged, grinning skull and crossbones, hoisted on an extremely unstable-looking flagpole that is cobbled together from smaller pieces of wood. The pole leans rightward at a slight angle. Standing on the raft to the left of the flag is a much smaller figure that looks like it is wearing a suit. It is raising its right hand and brandishing a pirate sword. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/03

March 3, 2025
A dark night. Erupting out of the ground is a blazing geyser of rainbow light, illuminating the ground around it. There is a purplish glow around the rainbow, and above the ground. Placed directly to the right of the rainbow, presumably in front of it, is a small, rickety barricade with a warning sign: a triangular sign with an exclamation point on it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/03/02

March 2, 2025
A person walks into what appears to be the mouth of a cave. The area outside the cave is dark purple; the inside of the cave blazes with red and orange firelight, although the fire itself is not visible. The person is illuminated on one side by the firelight, and they are casting a huge, distorted purple shadow against the cave wall. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". 

2025/03/01

March 1, 2025
A small stone bridge crosses a river. It's night; the sky is a deep blue. Silhouetted against the sky is a cylindrical tower with a tall, conical roof. The bridge is connected to the tower, and a small doorway faces out onto the bridge. A slight haze hangs over the water. There is a dark, blurry suggestion of trees in the distance. The bridge and tower are dimly illuminated by a soft blue light that could be moonlight, but there is no visible moon. The only thing in the sky is a comet, glowing blue. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/28

February 28, 2025
A figure wearing a tight-fitting purple jumpsuit stands in a featureless blue space. The suit it's wearing looks sort of like something a diver might wear: dark purple, with an orange zipper down the front and two orange rings around the feet that imply boot rims. Where the figure's head would be is a disproportionately large green glass sphere, about a third the size of its body. The sphere is filled with liquid and contains a large, dark fish, dimly visible through the glass. There are a few bubbles as well. The figure's right arm is out to one side; in its left arm, it's holding a phone with a glowing green screen. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/27

February 27, 2025
A lonely road runs past a decrepit telephone pole and two dim houses. The atmosphere is foggy. The telephone pole leans at an angle, broken wires dangling from it. The entire scene is a dull aqua green. Wandering along the road on the left side of the painting is a translucent, ghostly figure. High in the sky sits a translucent, ghostly sun. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/26

February 26, 2025
A gunmetal-green sphere hangs suspended in a bright green space. The sphere resembles a cartoon bomb, with a fuse sticking out of the top, but where the fuse would be are several small vinelike plants, one of which has a red flower at the end. The sphere has a smiley-face embossed into its surface. Bright pink lipstick is roughly smeared around its mouth, with two smeary blue paint lines for eyebrows. It has a clownish appearance. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/25

February 25, 2025
A person walks off a rocky cliff, striding into the air as though walking along an invisible path into empty space. The cliff, on the left side of the painting, is craggy and earth-toned, with sparse grass and weeds. The sky is a yellow-green. The person is carrying a long hiking staff and wearing a backpack. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/24

February 24, 2025
A tall, very powerful-looking figure stands, arms flexed to show off their muscular build. The person looks like a boxer or bodybuilder: very tall and wearing athletic shorts, with a broad chest and a V-shaped figure. They are standing on dully colored grass in front of a yellow sky, the sun high above, and are mostly silhouetted, with the sunlight reflecting red off their shoulders and arms. Their right foot is propped on a short, square box with a yellow star on it. Thin strings are connected to their head, hands, and feet, as though they are a marionette. The strings extend upward into the sky. It's not clear who's at the end of them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/23

February 23, 2025
A small figure stands in a bright orange space. It is wearing a shiny purple space suit of some sort, its head encased in a perfectly spherical helmet with a circular faceplate on the front, like a diver's helmet. The faceplate glows a holographic green. The figure has one hand on its hip and the other out in front of it, and it is inspecting a small glowing green circle on its wrist, like someone checking a watch. On the front of the suit is a small pattern of four bright blue lines arranged in a diamond shape; possibly a control panel. Beyond the figure is a blaze of white and yellow light—not the sun, something else, perhaps a time portal that it has just stepped out of. The light reflects off the back of the figure, the reflection an iridescent greenish-blue like what you'd see on a beetle. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/22

February 22, 2025
A bright pink sky with a slight haze of purple clouds in the top right corner. On the left is a dark black and purple cliff with a small staircase jutting off it. The edge of the cliff and the underside of the staircase have a ragged look, as though some vast chunk of the earth has been suddenly ripped away. A broken pipe sticks out of the cliff wall. Moss hangs from the pipe and the side of the cliff. At the end of the staircase, nearly tumbling off into space, is a pedestrian traffic signal on a small post. It is showing the white "walk" signal. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

2025/02/21

February 21, 2025
A small hill, on which is standing a tall rectangular obelisk. The obelisk has a minimalist face seen in profile: a long, straight nose and a vertical line for an eye. It looks very much like the "talking head" icon designed by Susan Kare for pre-OS X Mac system software. It is facing right. The scene is at night: the sky is dark blue and starry. The hill and obelisk are a dark indigo. Coming out of the face's mouth is a large glowing white-green speech balloon. It hangs in the air, glowing like an apparition. Standing at the base of the obelisk is a person. To the right of the person is a long ladder, leading up into the speech balloon. The person looks like they are about to climb the ladder. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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