Torea
Visual artist based in the Pacific Northwest; expect fleeting thoughts and ephemeral visions. Let Er Rip, the first show I curated, is on view at 811 SE Stark in Portland through June 2025. For more? toreafrey.com
- A little mixed media collage for the #februllage2026 day 3 prompt BALLET; thinking on performance, perception, various theaters, a tense balance… #collageart #collage
- On giving and receiving kindness—really good read, on the miraculous ways our lives are, or can be, intertwined. kk.org/thetechnium/...
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- New plan, pepper sentences like this into my life in 2026: “With the rain and dew of your sweet words, you have penetrated and moistened the dryness of my mind”” (!!). From Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, 1405 #booksky #2026resolutions
- “Thick” vs “thin” desires and transformation—interesting thinking and some ideas on path forward www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
- Reposted by ToreaA pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
- post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden or alice in chains Poe’s Hello remains on repeat for me 30 years on. The uptempo stuff got radio play, but That Day and Beautiful Girl and Fly Away? Be still my beating heart.
- Pleasantly surprised some work of mine was selected for National Collage Society’s annual juried exhibit! ✂️ #collage #collageart #analogcollage
- As another near-lifelong Oregonian, this thread feels helpful context. We’ve been keepin’ it surreal—and feisty—long as I remember.
- Reposted by ToreaI debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
- Reposted by ToreaHey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
- I may feel like absolute garbage but found a new GF chocolate donut recipe the fam has dubbed “bangin”—subbed in hazelnut butter for almond butter and 😋 recipe: bakeitpaleo.com/chocolate-zu... #baking #glutenfree #chocolatedonut
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- Find Bam Bam! Last seen in NW PDX. Terrified of hands, but sucker for a peanut — here’s hoping the parrot & its person are soon reunited. #lostparrot #findbambam #portland #pdx
- What’s keeping me going this summer? Berries, lots of berries. Oregon summers are bursting with roadside & alleyway fruit; I’ve been foraging and making treats to share with friends … a little something sweet can make a surprisingly big difference in one’s day 💜 Bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing #zines
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- 🙄 Tell me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill — anyone with ME/CFS, anyone with hEDS and its little friends, anyone immunocompromised, &c. — without telling me you’ve never spent time with anyone chronically ill.
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- She rollin’ with glee. Why? Pretty sure it’s the plentiful 🐰 poo 😂 #dog #dogsofbluesky #goldendoodle
- Reposted by Toreathis is something i’ve wanted to do for a few years and i am SO excited to be working on it at last. edited by @jpb.bsky.social and i, submit by August 31st, expected publication October 2025!
- Announcing an open call from @nonmachinable.com and @twincitiescollage.bsky.social: Queer + Trans Collagists Any artist identifying as LGBTQIA2S+ working with collage are encouraged to submit their artwork, hybrid genre work and/or writing. ✂️ Submit by August 31st: bit.ly/QueerTransCollage
- Nothing like a morn walk; picked a few berries, scoped out some petals 🌸🌺🌻 #bloomscrolling #flowers #flaneur
- Oh, the quiet devastation of modernity: today, an autogenerated email reminded me my mom turns 70 soon, except that’s in another timeline where she didn’t die three years back from young onset Alzheimers …. 😢 #grief #griefislove
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- song of the summer? youtu.be/dsZ75RioLVw
- Fantasy wardrobe, Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 edition. I’m getting Klimt vibes, would die to dramatically descend a staircase in one of these gems #fashion #rahulmishra #art
- Insomnia reading, Matt Hai/Comfort Book edition: “Happiness occurs when you forget who you’re expected to be. And what you’re expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It’s the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.” #BookSky
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- Finished this new, larger scale mixed media piece, Language to Flow Like a River. 24”x36” on canvas, a drifting lazy river of language lost and found against a sea of deepest black #mixedmedia #collageart #blueskycollage #visualart
- PDX, don’t miss A Celebration of Palestinean Embroidery, at @swanarosepdx.bsky.social. This intimate, thoughtfully curated exhibit weaves together masterful stitching, storytelling, and family beautifully. More info: www.tatreezandtea.com/celebration #portland #pdx #tatreez #embroidery
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- Leaving our fav park, we passed an older couple w/ 2 small pups. One of which was a wee little teacup puffball … that was a delightful shade of purple. “We just got back from vacation,” the couple explained. “The kids shaved him and dyed him without teling us!” Surprise, I guess?! 🤷🏻♀️😂 #dogs #petsky
- A small, good thing: Ikea has adaptive living stuff now — a shower chair and a sturdy little bench with handlebar for dressing (www.ikea.com/us/en/p/baes...). They’re just right + look so much less medical than alternatives, without the propensity to mold like the bamboo stool I just had to retire 😂
- current vibe
- “precipice” — a 9”x12” mixed media collage piece on cradleboard, if you’re feeling a little on edge 🖤 #collageart #mixedmedia #visualart #blueskycollage #abstractart
- Shameful.
- “I am telling you that decisions are no longer as cheap as they used to be…Life requires a certain amount of curiosity and exploration. Life is an open world game. It rewards you for exploring. And capitalism cannot fucking stand that.” Provocative, from Mike Monteiro: buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
- And in other “not bad” news, spotted some teensy blackberries, already ripe in my neighborhood #berries #nature #pnw
- “at what cost” — new poppy, abstract, bright mixed media collage on board. In summer, I always want to play with color 🙃💖✨
- Decent crowd (I’d guess 500-1,000?) out in PDX’s southeast suburbs. Keep showing up—it matters, and you matter. 🖤
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- Reposted by ToreaToday they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
- Many, many options if you’d like raise your voice. Not sure you can stomach a big downtown event? You could be pleasantly surprised and find a smaller local gathering quite close to you — worth a look.
- June 14, save the date. Millions of us are showing up in the streets all across the nation to protest Trump's regime. We’ll see you there. #50501movement #NoKings
- Reposted by Torea" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
- Out and about for PDX First Friday? I have a few collages in Piecing It Together at Wellspring Fine Art, 811 E Burnside. It kicks off tonight, 4-9p. Yeehaw! #pdx #pdxfirstfriday #firstfriday #collage #collageart #portlandart
- A CLAW MACHINE at beloved @upupbooks.bsky.social?! PDX Book Week looks poised to be great fun … #portland #pdxarts #booksky
- Honored that About Place Journal included the Let Er Rip project — the exhibit I curated on disability, collage, and community care — in its latest issue, even using our art for the cover and section breaks 🥺🩵 aboutplacejournal.org/issues/caref... #collage #communitycare #visualart
- Took a lil’ jaunt to drop off collage for a show opening Friday, 4-8pm — at Wellspring Fine Art on Burnside. Lovely studio, at the cute 811 Shops; you’ll want to check it out! #collage #pdx #pdxart #firstfridaypdx #collageart
- Once had an acquaintance who loved to lob this out: Quick, which are real (or more plausible to you), ghosts or aliens—and why? A weirdly engaging one for big, diverse groups or awkward cocktail hours, especially when people get into their “why” 👻👽✨
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- A float of yellow-green obscures my words, gentle, hopeful, in this collage: “see | me” — part of an ongoing series exploring transient aphasia from migraine #visualart #papercollage #collageart #blueskycollage
- Very occasionally, I write a newsletter about my art & where to find it. After months, here are some updates! open.substack.com/pub/pastedto...
- This Lose Yourself (Eminem) mashup by The Unusual Suspects uses 300+ movies to cover the hit — mindblowing mashup that brings collage to mind for me … m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta... #collageart #everythingiscollage
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- Montaigne, cited in On Vanishing: “We are entirely made up of bits and pieces, woven together so diversely and so shapelessly that each of them pulls its own way at every moment.” I’ve long thought of self AS collage, and boy does that ring this bell. #collageart #booksky #everythingiscollage
- Some helpful (if unhinged) ideas to get stuff done, via Mason Currey’s newsletter. I’m particularly drawn to playing “race the edible” and trying “wench hour” 😂 open.substack.com/pub/masoncur...
- Reading “On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear” by Lynn Casteel Harper. Provocative (if a little intense) 🤯 #booksky
- Oh yeah you should take this workshop 👇👇👇
- A little more info on my Wild Flowers install, and the bigger Collage-O-Rama exhibit: www.toreafrey.com/news-updates...
- And now, to rest. Perhaps for … a month? Six?
