Chris Silverman

A smoggy gray day, with a dim white sun high in the sky. A dark, dully colored figure with a clock key sticking out of its back is drinking from a hose that comes from something that resembles a gas pump: a structure with a small green glowing screen and a circular sign sticking out of the top. The sign has a red triangle on it. The pump itself has a few red stripes, as does the hose. The entire scene is slightly foggy and washed out. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A drab, gray basement room. Heavy pipes hang from the ceiling. There is little to look at in this place: a white analog clock, a heavy gray door in the wall, the left edge of a bulletin board to the right of it. Under the pipes, a ghostly white figure holds a mop, sweeping a polished dark floor. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A huge, craggy stone head sits under a dull blue sky in a dull blue meadow. The head is clearly carved to have a rudimentary face: heavy brow, round eyes, and a long, heavy nose. The rock is rough and cracking. Sticking out of the stone's forehead is a rod with a black sign hanging from it. The sign has the words "Now serving", and then a red digital display showing the number 42. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A statue made of dull gray-green concrete stands against a blue sky. The statue wears a suit coat. Instead of a head, it has a boulder, balanced on its stumplike neck. A crude red smiling face is spray-painted onto the boulder. Similarly, a red necktie is spray-painted onto its chest. There are a few white wispy clouds in the background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A gray, stone statue wearing a suit and tie stands waist deep in the snow under a gray sky. The statue is partly covered with snow, and has a few small cracks in it. It is taking a selfie, holding its stone phone up in front of its face and smiling. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A blue-green world somewhere under the water. Something vast and old is shifting up from the depths. Only its head is visible: round like a fish's, with one dead black eye and a large mouth full of pointed teeth. The creature is dark blue, with slightly wrinkled skin, and covered in illegible graffiti tags. Floating above it, still deep underwater, is a person wearing a suit and tie. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Crap.

Sincere sympathies. Did that myself just last week.

Thanks!

A tall castle turret stands against a green sky. The turret is mostly blue, with one side illuminated gold by the sun. On the right side of the turret is an arched window. Extending out from beneath the window is a long rod, like a perch on a bird feeder. Sitting on the roof is a large bird, species indeterminate. The bird is mostly dark, with a yellowish-green sheen from the sunlight. The sun, round and yellow, sits in the top right of the sky. The bird is looking up at it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A dark evening, somewhere in a remote and mountainous area. The sky is dark purple, with a crimson glow on the horizon. On the small hill closest to the viewer is a single streetlight, casting a greenish glow over the ground. In the background is the blurry rise of another hill, black against the horizon. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A bright, moonlit winter night. The full moon hangs in a slightly cloudy sky. A slight tinge of white reflects off the wisps of dull blue clouds. The Groke, a formless dark creature with a large nose, trudges up a snow-covered hill, casting a blue shadow in the moonlight. The Groke is holding a phone in one large paw and staring at it, yellow eyes fixed on the white screen. It's light, all right, but entirely without warmth. A dark treeline is visible over the hill. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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An ominous scene: a steep, dark cliff under a crimson sky. Right at the edge of the cliff, dangling down from the sky from an unseen source, is a long rope ladder. Racing towards the ladder—gripping it, in fact—is a figure wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. Right behind the figure and reaching towards it is a huge dark arm with grasping fingers; an unhappy client, perhaps. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A black background with a red "Closed" sign, like a lot of businesses are displaying right now in solidarity with the nationwide general strike and the protest against ICE. The sign reads "Sorry, We're Closed" in white letters in that mix of script and all-caps sans-serif that I like so much. In the lower left are the words "Fire ICE", scrawled in neon-pink graffiti lettering. In the top right is the Minnesota flag, a design that features a light blue field with a darker blue obtuse angular figure on the hoist. There's one small modification, though: in place of the white star is the Rebel Alliance logo from Star Wars. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

“…I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction, ICE
Is also great
And would suffice.”

— Robert Frost, “Fire and Ice”

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I really liked it. It feels like dark magic—something feral, in a powerful, eerie-folk-legend kind of way.

Goblin town: a dull, gray netherworld. A figure with horns and a long tail stands in front of a glowing billboard displaying a subway map of some unknown city. The map has numerous interconnecting colored lines, rendered in sharp geometric lines. No city is recognizable, and no station names are legible. The figure, silhouetted in the greenish glow from the board, is slightly hunched, with short legs and long arms. It is holding a briefcase, and has a windup key sticking out of its back. A low fog hangs over the ground. Glowing green-white fluorescent tubes hang above the scene. A few dim, horned shapes roam in the background. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A strange, monstrous-looking machine that looks like the rusting cab of a classic truck, mounted on two mechanical legs. Running center down the front of the cab is a line that divides the windshield and ends in a sharp nose. On either side of the cab are two curled, pointed fins that strongly suggest ears. The machine has one visible robot arm with clawed fingers. While the machine is primarily a rusty brown color, it has orange- and purple-tinged areas, with green spots on the rear side. Its legs are also purple, with blue spots and several spikes. It is wandering through a bluish-purple meadow under a bright green sky with a blazing white sun. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A green, goblinesque figure wearing a black baseball cap backwards, an indigo jacket with gold stars on the back, a pair of garish red-orange pants, and black boots with a purple lightning bolt on one. The figure has long pointed ears, a long, pointed nose, a long, pointed face, and long, pointed teeth. It is gesturing creepily with its hands the way a monster in a horror film might do. Its eyes are partly covered by the baseball cap. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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(hat tip to E M Will)

A harsh, blocky building on a hill by the sea. The sky is the slate blue of a cloudy winter evening. The building is surrounded by snow and rust-covered, with few niceties: a terrace, several small windows, and a door with a concrete porch. To the right of the door is a single-car garage with a light over it. Another light on the side wall of the garage casts a greenish light over the snow. On the roof of the building are a few antennae with red lights and a large radio dish. The overall effect is that of a Soviet-style official building—perhaps a remote radio station—so the weirdest touch is the large, glowing, green-white sign on top of the building that reads "DINER". The sign has a pink neon underline beneath it. This building could not look less like a diner, but many things are rarely as they immediately seem. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A snowy landscape; a colorless world of different grays. Footprints in the snow lead towards a small cabin in the immediate distance. The roof of the cabin is covered with thick snow. Smoke is coming out of the cabin's chimney. The cabin is surrounded by woods. A very dim, foggy treeline is visible behind the cabin. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A bunch of fish in a quasi medieval manuscript style. There's a sunfish, a weird dunkleosteus thing with huge tusks, a weird coelacanth looking dude, and a few other weird guys that don't resemble any specific fish, including a very grumpy looking fish with legs at the bottom.

"Drawing stuff that could be album covers," 7/?

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A pixelated icon of a small computer: an all-in-one model with both a screen and a disk drive. The screen has a smiling face on it. This, of course, is Susan Kare's Happy Mac: the first thing you'd see after turning on your Mac in the 80s or 90s (well, second thing, if your machine didn't have a hard drive). The icon is white pixels on a black background. The pixels glow with a neon blaze of rainbow colors: the six colors of the classic Apple logo. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman". Thanks for everything, Mac team.

"On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984.'"

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An elevator—at least, a small building whose front is entirely taken up with two silvery elevator doors—sits in the middle of a dusty yellow desert. The doors dimly reflect the orange-brown desert floor. On the right side of the doors are two round buttons. The top one is lit. Above the doors are the red LCD numerals of a floor indicator, showing "19". A blurry white sun sits in the yellow sky. Perched on the top left of the elevator are several small birds, one in mid-landing. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Two images on a dull gray surface. One is a greenish monochrome photograph of a person wearing a suit and tie. The person is also wearing a badge, although the badge is too small to show any specific content. The top of the photograph is torn off, so the person's head is missing. Beneath the photo, like an underlying sheet of paper, is another image: a garishly colored depiction of a snarling demonic face with horns, pointed ears, and bulging eyes. The face is mostly crimson on a dark purple background, with highlights in yellow and neon greens and blues. The edges of this image are slightly tattered. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A tall, blue figure wearing something that looks vaguely like a uniform stumbles forward awkwardly, brandishing a long sword. The figure wears boots and has the head of a robot, with a flat mouth and staring blue eyes. Perched on its back, one finger pointed forward, is a short, red, demonic-looking creature with a conspicuously fake white halo fixed to its head. The background is a bright yellowish-red. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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Pixel art of the blue bird Ollie gazing in loving affection at a series of standing arcade games.

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A deep blue city night. Someone stands on a balcony, looking out at a starless sky, illuminated only by an eerie green glow from the door behind them. The building design suggests some alien brutalist architecture: heavy vertical lines, heavy walls, concrete everywhere. In the background loom similar buildings, all of them dark and uninhabited except for one small greenish glowing window. The buildings have small red and pale green glowing lights on top. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A scarecrow stands in a desolate field at dusk, the moon high in a pink-purple sky. The scarecrow has a dull-colored tattered shirt, a dark brimmed hat, and a traffic signal for a head. The yellow light is lit. In the distance is a dim purple mountain. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A dark, slightly tarnished sphere hangs in a blue vacuum. On the yellowish underside of the sphere is carved a simple smiley-face smile and eyes. The underside has a tinge of yellow light to it. Sitting on top of the sphere is a small, blocky building with large windows glowing white, and a red neon border around the roof. Sticking up from it is a large sign that says "DINER" in pink neon lettering, bordered by white and yellow bulbs. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A craggy cliff under a bluish-pink sky that could be either dawn or dusk. A few sparse stars are scattered across the sky. Mounted on the cliff top is a telescope, with no one near it. It is pointed at the one thing in the sky that any observer would want a closer look at: a glowing white object ringed with pink ripples. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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A hall that may or may not be empty and unlit. The initial appearance is abandoned: a bare, dismal plaster wall with a hole where an electrical outlet once was and a fading rectangle where a picture once hung. Also on the wall is a large arched window, revealing a deep indigo night sky. A pipe hangs from the ceiling, while the floor is covered by a dull reddish-orange carpet. Hovering above the floor is a glowing yellow orb, leaving a trail of yellow light behind it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

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