Rob Levin

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.

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. "

Salmon and Florence, closed pair, 2014.

Emergent Landscape #4, 2022.

Blind, mixed media glass & stone, 2014.