Fleeting beauty with Phoebe Cummings | House & Garden

Phoebe Cummings' unfired clay creations challenge perceptions of fragility and durability.
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[@kateainsworth-bowles3174]

I love her comment about helping people connect to the feeling of loss. Art is a powerful way to reach deep emotions. Beautiful.

[@DreamingCatStudio]

What a refreshing approach. I love the idea of the fountain slowly melting away-such a beautiful reflection of all things.

[@squalter.kaufmann]

Delightful slice of lightness and serenity.

[@lovelifementoring5399]

Such a beautiful perception of her work. Poetic 🥰

[@vanessaisom8620]

What a very talented lady, her work is stunning!

[@sandramalone3522]

Such special talent. It's so delicate, charming, and the sculptures should never go away....what a lovely and enchanting video. Some people are so special.

[@Sarah-mv8nt]

Beautiful

[@Bluebird_Legacy]

Ohhhhhh! So much deeper than words can say! Love this!!!

[@aiai-j7i]

I find her approach to working with clay and metaphorically life very inspiring...

[@InnerWild]

beautiful film, what a pleasure to watch, thank you Luca and Phoebe

[@lydiarowe491]

Being able to allow the diminishing of a created piece is not an easy process...like nature it goes back to another form.⭐

[@annaprysiuda3944]

It’s just simply amazing. Amazing woman, amazing art, amazing video❤️

[@mariabanholzer7942]

So beautifull !!!! Thank you ! Love an peace from Paris/Marseilles

[@kittywalker2944]

This is just amazing to me - it seems so freeing not to need it to be permanent and to allow it to behave naturally. ‘Part of an ongoing process.’ ♥️♥️♥️

[@janetcorey5102]

A true artist! Beautiful

[@whattovisitinromania5044]

Beautiful and calming to watch! 🌼💕🌹

[@cinniskro9368]

Love your hands. Shows the work and love that you put in everyday

[@marisonata]

So calming video..😌 Well filmed and edited ❤

[@helensmith3214]

What an inspiring video. Just so talented. I would love a clay art in my home. And to learn myself how this is done.

[@yvonneshelton2505]

One of the best posts ever

[@petraberes9511]

That was beyond beautiful! I'm so glad to find this video! 🙂

[@ladyanne8139]

Very lovely ... Pretty lady too... Petals on the flowers so tenderly formed. 💞💗

[@daisyday7610]

Beautiful floral fountain. I am not an artist and I understand there is a message but still, I was disappointed to see the flowers dissolve. To me it was something that could be appreciated forever and now it's gone. I see real flowers all the time that flee and fade.

[@shashasyedd8858]

Stunning beauty in those creations, delicate & frigile as they are. So pls preserve it instead of letting it dissolve away.

[@eoniagrace2759]

Maybe she doesn't know how to preserve it, firing it properly in a kiln. Maybe she doesn't have access to a kiln, or it's too expensive. There's something perverse about destroying all this beauty and one's own work of art. Such a waste of time and talent, sort of a shallow and incomplete enterprise. She obviously has talent, but it seems to me there's something missing there, a neurotic approach to art and living, it's morbid, isn't?... her eyes have a vacant stare too. For goodness sake, somebody help this lady! Maybe she doesn't know how to preserve it, firing it properly in a kiln. Maybe she doesn't have access to a kiln, or it's too expensive. There's something perverse about destroying all this beauty and one's own work of art. Such a waste of time and talent, sort of a shallow and incomplete enterprise. She obviously has talent, but it seems to me there's something missing there, a neurotic approach to art and living, it's morbid, isn't?... her eyes have a vacant stare too. For goodness sake, somebody help this lady! Sorry, I don't mean to offend her, but I think this looks very depressing... either she is crying out for help, or maybe she is a control freak timing the death of her creation, or both. Either way, she might need someone who cares and knows how to help her.

[@eoniagrace2759]

Maybe she doesn't know how to preserve it, firing it properly in a kiln. Maybe she doesn't have access to a kiln, or it's too expensive. There's something perverse about destroying all this beauty and one's own work of art. Such a waste of time and talent, sort of a shallow and incomplete enterprise. She obviously has talent, but it seems to me there's something missing there, a neurotic approach to art and living, it's morbid, isn't?... her eyes have a vacant stare too. For goodness sake, somebody help this lady! Sorry, I don't mean to offend her, but I think this looks very depressing, either she is crying out for help, or maybe she is a control freak timing the death of her creation, or both. Either way, she might need someone who cares and knows how to help her.

[@dianalest553]

What a beautiful work! 🌸🐰💜😊

[@user-xs3og8us3d]

Oh lovely hairstyle... so free yet ellegant

[@Helen-qb4gv]

Incredibly beautiful, it would be such a privilege to own a piece of her work, however briefly

[@patriciaarango9128]

Very inspiring. Thank you

[@phronsiekeys]

This is lovely but I wish it had shown more of the work

[@kayelyward8714]

Such beautiful work . . .

[@msaito36]

Very beautiful!!!💙💙💚🦋💚💙💙

[@BrownyBird]

Amazingly beautiful !!!!

[@bespoketraveldesign7446]

Beautiful and inspiring!

[@WhyWhyWhy-ms3we]

So very beautiful

[@michaelverner2084]

Simply beautiful

[@agnesmorales3955]

Gorgeous!

[@marialinares7809]

Beautiful 🌟🌟🌟

[@mythriftylife3297]

What a great video and I love what you do.

[@catalogodefantasmas]

Finally! This is really good!

[@ExLibris-Alys]

Fleeting beauty 👏🏻💐

[@TheJoyfulEye]

beautiful, but sad. it's been many years since i worked with clay but this video calls to mind the newspaper armatures i would sometimes place within a clay structure to shape it and hold it up. after going thru the fire of the kiln, of course the newspaper armature had burned into nothing, but the clay had hardened into a lasting shape. a metaphor for this world -- merely a temporary part of the process of a spiritual creation

[@crowquilltarot]

How lovely.

[@patriciakelly69]

Beautiful work. X

[@38151]

Beautiful 😍 Thank you 🙏

[@patriciasurmon5702]

exquisite work

[@janetfayard672]

Beautiful video!

[@AllSentientBeings1]

I think she is the most beautiful sculpture

[@КатяМанюхина-р5в]

So inspirational 🌺

[@azoulaylydie6473]

Magnifique

[@bumberchute]

Kudos to Luca Lamaro for such beautiful visual storytelling and Emily Tobin for the production values in producing it. Sound design is also superb. Appreciation to House & Garden for a series of inspiring stores like this. Phoebe Cummings makes materiality spiritual. Wonder what the book/journal shown is?... "Club Mosses, Horsetails..."?

[@danielafana7760]

is from Botanicum an illustrated book curated by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis (Big Picture Press)

[@grazynachlebos2167]

Wspaniale,pieknie😀♥️

[@pixiekmoon544]

Hi your work is sooooo beautiful. Could you tell me what the book was as it’s also very beautiful and I’m looking for a book like that. 😍🧚‍♂️

[@redroselace9545]

Zara home could learn a thing or two about this video. Well done H&G

[@bottariseoul4919]

beauty....

[@mindaperes9818]

Que beleza!

[@aprilryan3208]

love

[@sistahkrista4290]

Very Buddhist and beautiful.

[@spaceskipster4412]

🎨 💗 😊

[@sadiesadie6343]

💗

[@karma-fee4656]

❤

[@Nayaret73]

💚🌿

[@chumleyk]

Thank you for not showing much of her work

[@alisonwelch8465]

You can do nothing of yourself. It is in and of Gods own glory you will wake up today x

[@barbararivera2380]

so, she doesn't fire it?

[@catherineoconnell3213]

Nothing lasts forever......

[@marcius7308]

☺️🙂🔭✨

[@rathands7429]

What if she fired them?

[@williamwoody7607]

A little too precious. Thanks tho.

[@emilywong4601]

Wabi Sabi

[@JohnJSteinbeck]

That music is so very, very, very, annoying and irritating …

[@kathleenmurphy2379]

Why would you spend all that time making those things of beauty that could be fired in a kiln and enjoyed by many people over many many years years. I don't know of anybody who paints a picture and then destroys it this whole thing doesn't make any sense

[@misssol1807]

Kathleen Murphy she’s not a pottery maker. She clearly says that she approaches it as a “performance” or installation. The very point if her art is to explore the fleeting nature of life.

[@nell8170]

Seems like a wasted talent.....fire them for goodness sake. All a bit gloomy!!!

[@flowerdoodle2438]

Ugh. Artists talking too much about their process makes me annoyed

[@ninarosesalonsdethesvaisel2013]

Magnifique

[@Sophialush]

❤

[@aurelialuca1310]

❤