Sand Blast Artist Research

HIDEYUKI KUBONOKI


Looking into sandblast art i came across Hideyuki Kubonoki. I think these are stunning, they are intricate but they almost inspire me to branch out and move away from just type and actually have drawings on these bottles, makes me think about drawing faces using a graphics tablet and printing this out on vinyl, this would then act as the stencil for the negative space on the bottles.

Will my partner has previously done spoken word style booklets so this may be a good point in collaboration, whereby the text featured is written by him and drawings entwined done by me. This would be a more abstract subjective approach and probably wouldn't require as many bottles as they would be more detailed and time consuming to produce.

In terms of the drawings, I was thinking of having roughly sketched outlines of faces with mixed emotions, a documentation of feelings expressed throughout the year.

Similar to this style I've previously adopted with these two commissioned pieces for musicians:



I was thinking for reference I could take images of me and my friends or just me and Will drunk throughout the year and trace these in this style. Will did a photoshoot of him holding a wine bottle which I feel would be particularly relevant, as well as it being an inclusion of work done this year.

This piece by P&M Dabner featuring jazz artists would be a similar style I'd hope to achieve, as I'm inexperienced with sand blasting I wouldn't be able to create detailed shaded pieces like Hideyuki. It would be more fitting also to work without shading as I want simple line work.

I also really like this piece of the Beatles by Area Glass.

Another interesting approach I found was by artist Tasmin Van Essen, she's fascinated by "the fragile boundary between attraction and repulsion" a place where tension is highlighted by the obscure. This being named the 'erosion' series is compiled of layered blocks of alternating black and white porcelain which she then sandblasts to mimic biological forms similar to a parasitic virus in the process of devouring the host.

This more 3-dimensional approach to sandblasting is what I want to achieve as most pieces I've seen are 2-D, usually on mirrors or as decorative panels of glass in restaurants and hotels.