Danielle C. Wyckoff

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Danielle C. Wyckoff

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All I Can Give You Is All That I Am

on-going series

performative action/wall drawing


My practice focuses on the human capacity to love and how this action unites us. 


I am interested in how we express love and, therefore, create works that reflect the myriad ways in which we do. Language is one of the ways in which we attempt to express our love, and I often turn to making drawings that involve the act of writing or to performative actions in which I collect stories about love from people willing to share.


Begun in 2011, "All I Can Give You Is All That I Am," responds to our limits in our loving. We are so small after all, yet when we love, we often (or idealistically) try to give the whole of ourselves. This performative writing-drawing involves me writing the phrase "I love you" hundreds of times--as much as I write the phrase, the language is never quite enough to express the love of which I write.  


Influenced by having a child, I am learning anew what it is to love, and I am painfully aware of my limits to give to my daughter all that she will ever need. All I can give her is all that I am--my attention, care, love. Yet what I am is limited by my humanness, my mortality.

All I can Give you is all that I am (Mother and Daughter)

Woman holding baby while writing on white wall using graphite pencil. Text says, "I love you" repeat

All I Can Give You Is All That I Am (Mother and Daughter)

performative action

The Fed Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI

2018

Detail of performative action, writing "I love you" repeatedly while my baby nurses contentedly.

Detail of the phrase "I love you" repeatedly written.

Detail of the phrase "I love you" repeatedly written and the scribbles and strokes made while comforting my four-month-old baby.

All I Can Give You Is All That I Am (Mother and Daughter)

wall drawing and video documentation of performative action

The Fed Galleries, Grand Rapids, M

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