Tonia Indigo Hughes
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      • Drum Circle
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      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands
      • Shedding Tears
      • Comfort Food
      • Homeland
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      • On Marginalization
        • Homogenized
        • Homogenized Video
        • The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
        • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
        • SALT
        • Pink show
        • Scanned
        • Link 1 ea.
        • The Maze
        • Women in Boxes
      • On Grief and Healing
        • Cling
        • Defiance
        • Indulging in the Ashes
        • Space
        • Remains
        • Preserves
      • On Environmental Concerns
        • Empty Nest and the Greenhouse Effect
        • Ice Age
        • Searching for the Remote
    • Oh! The Places I've Been!
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  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Portfolio
    • Current Projects
      • Drum Circle
      • Connections in Blue
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands
      • Shedding Tears
      • Comfort Food
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
    • Past Projects
      • On Marginalization
        • Homogenized
        • Homogenized Video
        • The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
        • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
        • SALT
        • Pink show
        • Scanned
        • Link 1 ea.
        • The Maze
        • Women in Boxes
      • On Grief and Healing
        • Cling
        • Defiance
        • Indulging in the Ashes
        • Space
        • Remains
        • Preserves
      • On Environmental Concerns
        • Empty Nest and the Greenhouse Effect
        • Ice Age
        • Searching for the Remote
    • Oh! The Places I've Been!
  • Teaching
    • Samples of Student Work
      • Black and White
      • Color
      • Installation and alternative
      • Video
    • Teaching Philosophy
      • for faculty portfolio review
        • student engagement
        • departmental engagement
        • division / college engagement
        • discipline / interdisciplinary engagement
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​©Tonia Indigo Hughes, 
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2021
(1)Maiden, (2)Mother, (3)Crone, (4)Triple Goddess:  Three 14" in diameter and one 16" in diameter handmade shamanic drums created with deer hide, raw hide lacing, and ash hoop. Photo transfers, feathers, torn dress fabric, and dried curly willow branches.
You may not remember, but let me tell you this, someone in some future time will think of us. (Sappho, seventh century BCE)

The pulse of our mother’s blood was our first continuous experience as we quickened in the womb.  Our physical being formed in response to the rhythms of her body.  No other sensation is so basic.  The beat of the priestesses’ drums articulated this process of creation. (When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm, Layne Redmond) 
 
Above is a favorite quote by the Greek poet, Sappho.  It speaks of time as a circular experience.  It suggests time as something past while being present and predicting the future, and it connects  “you” to a more universal “us.” In many ways it also exemplifies the metaphor of the Maiden, Mother, and Crone, or the Triple Goddess.  They depict mythical archetypes represented as three individual women, or states of womanhood, that are forever linked. 

Also above is a quote expressing a possible explanation as to why we feel and react so strongly to shamanic drumming.  Such sound is perhaps the most primal for us and resonates with a deep, subconscious memory of hearing our mother's heartbeat.  

In thinking of these things, I created these drums in honor of the Triple Goddess within each woman.  My intent is to remind us of the feminine strength and power we hold, especially when we work collectively as a group.  This is our drum circle.
 



  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Portfolio
    • Current Projects
      • Drum Circle
      • Connections in Blue
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands
      • Shedding Tears
      • Comfort Food
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
    • Past Projects
      • On Marginalization
        • Homogenized
        • Homogenized Video
        • The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
        • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
        • SALT
        • Pink show
        • Scanned
        • Link 1 ea.
        • The Maze
        • Women in Boxes
      • On Grief and Healing
        • Cling
        • Defiance
        • Indulging in the Ashes
        • Space
        • Remains
        • Preserves
      • On Environmental Concerns
        • Empty Nest and the Greenhouse Effect
        • Ice Age
        • Searching for the Remote
    • Oh! The Places I've Been!
  • Teaching
    • Samples of Student Work
      • Black and White
      • Color
      • Installation and alternative
      • Video
    • Teaching Philosophy
      • for faculty portfolio review
        • student engagement
        • departmental engagement
        • division / college engagement
        • discipline / interdisciplinary engagement
        • institutional initiatives engagement
  • About
    • Art Talk
  • Contact