Soft Forms, Biospheres and Glass Illusions by John Littleton and Kate Vogel

John Littleton and Kate Vogel 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.

Series like Soft Forms turn glass into tied pouches, folded vessels and translucent bundles, with ruffled openings and gathered necks that mimic cloth, rubber or plastic. In Biospheres, hands, leaves, flowers, waves and orbs appear as delicate environmental pieces. Clarity Imprisoned takes a sharper conceptual turn, encasing hands and figures inside clear blocks of glass, where bubbles, refraction and distortion become part of the work.

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 website.

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