Franklyn Monk

Some behind the scenes here of what the artist does between projects.

They play!

In between projects you play! Try new things out. Sketch. Most of the sketches are thrown out as soon as they’re made. Here’s one I’m about to delete. With it I was toying with automated scene-detection, scen selection, layering, and stretching methods.

To get this thing to work I need some audio, so I just grabbed a stem from a current project—an ambient feedback loop seeded with a recording of the Square made several years back, pre-covid in fact. It’s gonna plug some gaps and make some translations in the broader project (which is taking longer than I thought, because, well, I’ve been playing with video.

Play is important for art.
You have to always be playing.