A cathartic and deeply powerful participatory performance, artist Danielle Wyckoff invites visitors to co-create a clay vessel – a reliquary of love and hope – while describing to the artist a person you love. This vessel will be filled with symbolic materials: tokens for the wishes, prayers, and spells for the one you love. Next, you’ll fill out a card addressed to the one(s) you carry and place it on a shelf to be exhibited throughout the week. Those who participated may claim the object from the museum’s front desk within the week following the performance.

Wyckoff describes the performance as ​“acknowledging the power of language and specific movements to set intentions. Furthermore, the work relies on strangers opening up to each other, sharing intimate moments as well as opportunities for deep listening. My hope is that through this participatory performance, participants may find some peace, hope, or release. And as an over-arching theme in my work, this piece encourages us to find connection despite our apparent differences through the common state of loving and all that love entails.”

This performance is free and available to all.