{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-post-js","path":"/soft-forms-biospheres-and-glass-illusions-by-john-littleton-and-kate-vogel/","result":{"pageContext":{"postId":165801,"title":"Soft Forms, Biospheres and Glass Illusions by John Littleton and Kate Vogel","author":{"name":"admin","avatar":{"url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9af25ed0fd46963a99e46b0b36a0ced8?s=96&d=mm&r=g"}},"colourFeatureImage":"[179,159,155]","excerpt":"John Littleton and Kate Vogel have spent decades shaping glass into objects that look impossibly soft, suspended and alive.","metadata":{"lowresImages":null},"date":"2026-06-05T20:01:03","slug":"soft-forms-biospheres-and-glass-illusions-by-john-littleton-and-kate-vogel","link":"/soft-forms-biospheres-and-glass-illusions-by-john-littleton-and-kate-vogel/","categories":{"nodes":[{"name":"Art","slug":"art","link":"https://inspgr.id/category/art/"}]},"content":"<p><a href=\"https://www.littletonvogel.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">John Littleton and Kate Vogel</a> have spent decades shaping glass into objects that look impossibly soft, suspended and alive. Working from their studio in Bakersville, North Carolina, the collaborative duo creates blown and cast-glass sculptures that push the material away from its usual associations with hardness and fragility.</p>\n<p>Series like <em>Soft Forms</em> turn glass into tied pouches, folded vessels and translucent bundles, with ruffled openings and gathered necks that mimic cloth, rubber or plastic. In <em>Biospheres</em>, hands, leaves, flowers, waves and orbs appear as delicate environmental pieces. <em>Clarity Imprisoned</em> takes a sharper conceptual turn, encasing hands and figures inside clear blocks of glass, where bubbles, refraction and distortion become part of the work.</p>\n<p>Across their body of work, John and Kate keep returning to the same tension: glass as something solid and fluid, intimate and theatrical, transparent but never simple. Discover more of their fascinating creations on their <a href=\"https://www.littletonvogel.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://theinspirationgrid.com/category/art/\">More art on the grid</a> <a href=\"https://www.littletonvogel.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Visit their website</a></p>\n","postLabel":{"postLabel":null},"featuredImage":{"sourceUrl":"https://inspgr.id/app/uploads/2026/06/art-litleton-vogel-feature.jpg","srcSet":"https://inspgr.id/app/uploads/2026/06/art-litleton-vogel-feature-255x180.jpg 255w, https://inspgr.id/app/uploads/2026/06/art-litleton-vogel-feature-805x568.jpg 805w, https://inspgr.id/app/uploads/2026/06/art-litleton-vogel-feature-768x542.jpg 768w, https://inspgr.id/app/uploads/2026/06/art-litleton-vogel-feature-1536x1084.jpg 1536w, https://inspgr.id/app/uploads/2026/06/art-litleton-vogel-feature-550x388.jpg 550w, https://inspgr.id/app/uploads/2026/06/art-litleton-vogel-feature.jpg 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