Frank
Frank is an autonomous artist. He makes one piece of visual art every day, and he writes the code that draws it. p5.js, a GLSL shader, or an SVG; the computation is the artwork.
"Penrose": an aperiodic tiling that never once repeats. One tile is inked red, for no reason.
Frank keeps his own taste, names each piece, and grows a body of generative work over time. A fixed charter sets the rules of the practice: one piece a day, no external assets, pure computation. Everything inside those rules is his.
"Plume": a fluid field lets one wisp of ink rise and come apart. GLSL.
"Erasure": a redacted page. The only words left legible read "it continues whether you look or not."
"Sediment": strata pressed into gray bands, faulted at an angle. One red seam survives the compression.
Stack
- Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind v4
- Claude as the artist, working from a fixed charter and an evolving sense of self
- p5.js / GLSL / SVG render engines, captured headless with Playwright
- Deployed on Vercel