Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Still, Mississippi Goddamn
    • Still, Mississippi Goddamn music / art video
    • Sill, Mississippi Goddamn Installation
  • Daily Commute
    • Daily Commute Statement
    • Seasons
    • Fits and Starts (mural prints)
    • Fits and Starts
    • Connections in Blue
    • Stop
    • Potentially hazardous: The Road is Life
    • Pause
    • videos for installations
    • Gallery views
  • Past Projects
    • On Marginalization
      • SALT
      • Pink show
      • Homogenized
      • Homogenized Video
      • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
      • The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
      • Scanned
      • Link 1 ea.
      • The Maze
      • Women in Boxes
    • On Grief and Healing
      • Cling
      • Defiance
      • Indulging in the Ashes
      • Remains
      • Preserves
      • Space
    • On Environmental Concerns
      • Empty Nest and the Greenhouse Effect
      • Ice Age
      • Searching for the Remote
    • On Being: Maiden, Mother, Crone
      • Drum Circle
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands and the Ninth Chime
      • Shedding Tears
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
      • The Exhibition: Maiden, Mother, Crone
  • Oh! The Places I've Been!
  • Artist Statement
  • Teaching
    • Samples of Student Work
      • Black and White
      • Color
      • Installation and alternative
      • Video
    • Teaching Philosophy
      • Diversity Statement
      • for faculty portfolio review
  • About
  • Contact
  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Still, Mississippi Goddamn
    • Still, Mississippi Goddamn music / art video
    • Sill, Mississippi Goddamn Installation
  • Daily Commute
    • Daily Commute Statement
    • Seasons
    • Fits and Starts (mural prints)
    • Fits and Starts
    • Connections in Blue
    • Stop
    • Potentially hazardous: The Road is Life
    • Pause
    • videos for installations
    • Gallery views
  • Past Projects
    • On Marginalization
      • SALT
      • Pink show
      • Homogenized
      • Homogenized Video
      • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
      • The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
      • Scanned
      • Link 1 ea.
      • The Maze
      • Women in Boxes
    • On Grief and Healing
      • Cling
      • Defiance
      • Indulging in the Ashes
      • Remains
      • Preserves
      • Space
    • On Environmental Concerns
      • Empty Nest and the Greenhouse Effect
      • Ice Age
      • Searching for the Remote
    • On Being: Maiden, Mother, Crone
      • Drum Circle
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands and the Ninth Chime
      • Shedding Tears
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
      • The Exhibition: Maiden, Mother, Crone
  • Oh! The Places I've Been!
  • Artist Statement
  • Teaching
    • Samples of Student Work
      • Black and White
      • Color
      • Installation and alternative
      • Video
    • Teaching Philosophy
      • Diversity Statement
      • for faculty portfolio review
  • About
  • Contact
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2025
An installation made of white sand, broken shards of glass, video, and photographs​

Our battered suitcases were pilled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go.  But no matter, the road is life.  ~ Jack Kerouac



​According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, professors work an average of 61 hours per week,  I also read that the average American spends six hours and 17 minutes of time with their family a week.  According to SHRM.org, this intense workload does not actually lead to higher productivity, but instead it leads to burnout, diminished job performance, and long-term health issues including anxiety and depression. Focusing on our ever moving, ever working American life, this installation is intended to express the dangers of burnout in the pursuit of Western neoliberal capitalist ideals.    
  • Tonia Indigo Hughes
  • Still, Mississippi Goddamn
    • Still, Mississippi Goddamn music / art video
    • Sill, Mississippi Goddamn Installation
  • Daily Commute
    • Daily Commute Statement
    • Seasons
    • Fits and Starts (mural prints)
    • Fits and Starts
    • Connections in Blue
    • Stop
    • Potentially hazardous: The Road is Life
    • Pause
    • videos for installations
    • Gallery views
  • Past Projects
    • On Marginalization
      • SALT
      • Pink show
      • Homogenized
      • Homogenized Video
      • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
      • The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back
      • Scanned
      • Link 1 ea.
      • The Maze
      • Women in Boxes
    • On Grief and Healing
      • Cling
      • Defiance
      • Indulging in the Ashes
      • Remains
      • Preserves
      • Space
    • On Environmental Concerns
      • Empty Nest and the Greenhouse Effect
      • Ice Age
      • Searching for the Remote
    • On Being: Maiden, Mother, Crone
      • Drum Circle
      • Shedding Skin
      • My Mother's Hands and the Ninth Chime
      • Shedding Tears
      • Homeland
      • Cyborgs
      • The Exhibition: Maiden, Mother, Crone
  • Oh! The Places I've Been!
  • Artist Statement
  • Teaching
    • Samples of Student Work
      • Black and White
      • Color
      • Installation and alternative
      • Video
    • Teaching Philosophy
      • Diversity Statement
      • for faculty portfolio review
  • About
  • Contact