Torea
@toreajade.bsky.social
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
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hold on i gotta take this
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 AM
hold on i gotta take this
A little mixed media collage for the #februllage2026 day 3 prompt BALLET; thinking on performance, perception, various theaters, a tense balance…
#collageart #collage
#collageart #collage
February 3, 2026 at 3:24 AM
A little mixed media collage for the #februllage2026 day 3 prompt BALLET; thinking on performance, perception, various theaters, a tense balance…
#collageart #collage
#collageart #collage
On giving and receiving kindness—really good read, on the miraculous ways our lives are, or can be, intertwined. kk.org/thetechnium/...
How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work every day. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up. … Cont...
kk.org
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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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Collaging with friends won't solve all the problems but connection & community is a great antidote for fear & isolation. A list of meet-ups, classes, & opportunities for online and in-person art (and friend) making. #collage #queercollage #fuckice #together #art #makeart #portland #PNW #collageart
do it with friends!
collage local!
hopeamico.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Collaging with friends won't solve all the problems but connection & community is a great antidote for fear & isolation. A list of meet-ups, classes, & opportunities for online and in-person art (and friend) making. #collage #queercollage #fuckice #together #art #makeart #portland #PNW #collageart
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
January 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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...
www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.
We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.
We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies.
We're hungry and we don'...
www.joanwestenberg.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“Thick” vs “thin” desires and transformation—interesting thinking and some ideas on path forward
www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires...
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A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(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.
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.
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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.
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
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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.
What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:
I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.
So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.
So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.
October 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
As another near-lifelong Oregonian, this thread feels helpful context. We’ve been keepin’ it surreal—and feisty—long as I remember.
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I 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.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I 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.
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Hey, 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.
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.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, 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.
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
#baking #glutenfree #chocolatedonut
August 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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
#baking #glutenfree #chocolatedonut
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two weeks left to submit what's bringing you joy and delight in these tough times! send @toreajade.bsky.social and i a list or short paragraph, snapshots, artwork, etc. by august 15th bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
#zines #zinesky #artsky #opencall
#zines #zinesky #artsky #opencall
hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
two weeks left to submit what's bringing you joy and delight in these tough times! send @toreajade.bsky.social and i a list or short paragraph, snapshots, artwork, etc. by august 15th bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
#zines #zinesky #artsky #opencall
#zines #zinesky #artsky #opencall
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
#lostparrot #findbambam #portland #pdx
July 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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
#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
Bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing #zines
July 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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
Bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing #zines
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hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
July 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
hi! @toreajade.bsky.social and i want to know what keeps you going in the hard times! what started as a check-in between friends has blossomed into an open call for a zine about taking care 🌻 send us a list, a paragraph or two, artwork, photos, pet pix, etc by august 15th: bit.ly/WhatKeepsUsGoing
🙄 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.
Mehmet Oz: "We've made it easy to be sick in America and this president and this secretary of health, Bobby Kennedy, they're not gonna tolerate it anymore."
July 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🙄 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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Scorpio: Don't start a garden. Don't dig in your yard. Do not unearth the sins of the past.
July 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Scorpio: Don't start a garden. Don't dig in your yard. Do not unearth the sins of the past.
July 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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this 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
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
July 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
this 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!
Nothing like a morn walk; picked a few berries, scoped out some petals 🌸🌺🌻
#bloomscrolling #flowers #flaneur
#bloomscrolling #flowers #flaneur
July 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Nothing like a morn walk; picked a few berries, scoped out some petals 🌸🌺🌻
#bloomscrolling #flowers #flaneur
#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
#grief #griefislove
July 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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
#grief #griefislove
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'Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck'
by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart #Fridayfeeling
by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart #Fridayfeeling
July 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
'Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck'
by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart #Fridayfeeling
by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #womensart #Fridayfeeling
song of the summer? youtu.be/dsZ75RioLVw
I AM BLEEDING INTERNALLY
YouTube video by The Dream Eaters
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July 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
song of the summer? youtu.be/dsZ75RioLVw