Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Portfolio
    • Current Projects
      • Drum Circle
      • Connections in Blue
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands
      • Shedding Tears
      • Comfort Food
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
      • On Being: Maiden, Mother, Crone
    • 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
  • Contact
  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Portfolio
    • Current Projects
      • Drum Circle
      • Connections in Blue
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands
      • Shedding Tears
      • Comfort Food
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
      • On Being: Maiden, Mother, Crone
    • 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
  • Contact
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Please do not copy or share any text or images from this website without the expressed permission of the artist.
2021
Picture
 Artist ​Statement

We all have childhood memories that influence us.  My earliest and most riveting came from staring at old photos belonging to my Grandmother.  The power of a weathered photograph to inflame my imagination and spark connections to strangers was intoxicating.  Later, as a part of the “MTV generation,” I was captivated by the emotional stirrings of music videos and sound bites.  And as popular media was impacting my mind, life experiences were shaping my conscience.  Growing up as a queer woman in the Deep South and having a brother with Down Syndrome meant that I personally witnessed the consequences of marginalization. Then, further experiences such as parenting and the deaths of loved ones, broadened the topics of my work beyond the socio-political arena.  This history of experiences channels itself through me, and manifests as a motivation to create socio-political work utilizing the influential mediums of photography, mixed media, video and installation. I strive to give the viewer an emotional spark like the ones I have experienced.  My intent is to connect them to the complexities of political issues surrounding sexuality, gender, feminism and the labeling of individuals; as well as with more universal topics such as grief, loss, and interpersonal relationships.  I feel a responsibility to be a “ripple in the water,” and to produce visual work that promotes social change and awareness. 

~ Tonia Indigo Hughes


                                                                                                                                                                   
  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Portfolio
    • Current Projects
      • Drum Circle
      • Connections in Blue
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands
      • Shedding Tears
      • Comfort Food
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
      • On Being: Maiden, Mother, Crone
    • 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
  • Contact