Tadayoshi Littleton
Emergent Landscape #4, 2022.
TADAYOSHI LITTLETON is a fourth generation Glass Worker from Spruce Pine, NC. He earned a bachelor's in Biology from Carleton College in Northfield, MN before pursuing a career working with the land he was born on. Tadayoshi has experience in all areas of glass work from casting and blowing to building equipment. He believes in a holistic understanding of the material, from harvest to final object. Tadayoshi has never had a broken bone, but many burned limbs.
When Tadayoshi is not working on his own art. He spends most of his days sourcing specialty materials and assisting glassblowers as Hearth Glass’s Materials Specialist and Studio Technician.
Artist Statement:
“My work is an exploration of the tension between the surface and the layers underneath.
In my wanderings as a student of material, I search for ways to represent the abstract and ephemeral. I am inspired by the the unending variations of sunsets, streams and shadows. I attempt to capture an educated guess of those liminal moments by reading and reacting to a thorough and arduous color application.
By contrasting the fundamental qualities of the material, with simple forms and delicate layered composition, I hope to draw the viewer into a meditation on time and self. "
LINKS:
Website: Tadayoshi Littleton
Instagram: @tadayoshilittleton
