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Torea
@toreajade.bsky.social
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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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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
A baked chocolate donut on a small plate sits on an end table surrounded by cups and bottles of tea and water
August 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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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
Sign for a lost parrot, with a green head and white around his little bird eyes, named Bam Bam, with information about how to contact owner if found, and what to do. Bam Bam lst seen at 23rd and Overton in northwest Portland, and owner can be reached at 626-550-5782.
July 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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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
Window ledge with shaft of sunlight coming through it. On the ledge are potted succulents, a small carved wooden figurine of a Dutch woman, three dried rose petals, and a miniature teacup filled eith foraged blackberries
July 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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She rollin’ with glee. Why? Pretty sure it’s the plentiful 🐰 poo 😂
#dog #dogsofbluesky #goldendoodle
July 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Nothing like a morn walk; picked a few berries, scoped out some petals 🌸🌺🌻
#bloomscrolling #flowers #flaneur
Meadow view, with tall grass, teasel, and shrubs/trees against a blue sky Purple flower with reddish center against green leaves Coneflowers in red, orange, pink in a neighbors front yard in Clackamas County Oregon
July 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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
Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. The dress is sleeveless, black, with an asymmetrical ruffled skirt festooned with glitter and colorful flowers. A large semi-transparent face shield is decorated similarly. Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. She wears a full length gold bodysuit with black mesh sleeves; the bodysuit has circles of purple and other rich details. The left shoulder of the bodysuit extends up beside the model’s head, with a detail that appears to be a fabric head looking away from the model. Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. She wears a sparkly black bodysuit covered by a voluminous billowing black cape, which feateures a band of black sparkles, glittering circles, and a painted head or two. Runway model in a Rahul Mishra F/W 2025 dress. She wears a full length gold bodysuit with no sleeves; the bodysuit has circles of purple and other rich details. Extending from the bodysuit are thin wires that hold colorful circles of gold, red and black, haloing the model’s body so she look like a mobile of sorts.
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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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
Short chapter from Matt Haig’s “The Comfort Book,” titled Happiness. The quoted chapter reads “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.”
July 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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
Mixed media collage in landscape orientation. This anstract piece is on canvas, with a deep black background. Cutting through the centerline is a river of crumpled and sculpeted dictionary pages, a visualization of my current challenges with speech and communication. Black-and-white/grayscale images of flowers and empty rooms are used to blend the transition between background and foreground
July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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
Woman’s hand holds two cards promoting A Celebration of Palestinean Embroidery, an art show at Swana Rose in Portland, Oregon Embroidery piece The Birds, stitched by master artisan Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim. This embroidery panel is stitched mostly in red and is rich with detail and story. Two birds can be easily discerned but a closer look unveils additional details, such as the artist’s name and the word Palestine Embroidery piece Al Naqab, stitched by master artisan Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim in 2022. The panel illustrates a Bedouin woman stirched in style, incorporating metal and beads as well as thread
June 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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“precipice” — a 9”x12” mixed media collage piece on cradleboard, if you’re feeling a little on edge 🖤
#collageart #mixedmedia #visualart #blueskycollage #abstractart
Portrait oriented mixed media collage on cradleboard painted black. Overlaid are vintage papers, with the bottom third a cacophony of ripped dictionary papers and word fragments, and the top two-thirds are largely in a neutral cream/beige color. Applied on top is a large piece of heavy black paper with a big circle cut through it.
June 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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And in other “not bad” news, spotted some teensy blackberries, already ripe in my neighborhood
#berries #nature #pnw
Four blackberries of varying degrees ripeness grow in grass
June 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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“at what cost” — new poppy, abstract, bright mixed media collage on board. In summer, I always want to play with color 🙃💖✨
White woman’s left arm with watch on wrist holds out a piece of art — a square mixed media collage with vintage cream colored papers in background and a few circles (or circle silhouettes) plus thin strips of paper arranged horizontally in a pleasingly anstract composition, with light spattering of black ink square mixed media collage with vintage cream colored papers in background and a few circles (or circle silhouettes) plus thin strips of paper arranged horizontally in a pleasingly anstract composition, with light spattering of black ink
June 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Decent crowd (I’d guess 500-1,000?) out in PDX’s southeast suburbs. Keep showing up—it matters, and you matter. 🖤
People line a suburban sidewalk with protest signs and US flags as cars pass People line a suburban sidewalk with protest signs at an intersection People line a suburban sidewalk with protest signs and US flags as cars pass
June 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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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
Promo card for the Piecing It Together group collage show at Wellspring Fine Art, 811 E Burnside Ste 216, on Friday June 8 from 4-9pm. In addition to show info, the background features a collaged landscape.
June 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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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
Image of a cane handle held between a woman’s knees looking at folded seats on a Tri-Met bus in Portland. Dotted tape on a bus window, with blurry outside in greens and blues behind it Two working tables, covered with collage supplies, with a white woman standing over them, surrounded by paintings in progress Ephemera and cut-out text as well as scissors and cutting implements splayed out on a work table
June 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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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
On a grounding of scraps cchaotically torn from vintage dictionaries & thesauruses lies an abstract obstruction of yellow-green, both obscuring meaning and drawing it out through the words that remain visible
May 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Very occasionally, I write a newsletter about my art & where to find it. After months, here are some updates! open.substack.com/pub/pastedto...
Promo image for latest issue of Torea’s newsletter Pasted Together, with an image of her at Let Er Rip and text explaining that her newsletter offers updates on the show she curated as well as Wild Flowers installation at Seattle’s Collage-O-Rama
May 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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...
Screenshot of a social media comment describing a life hack. The hack reads: “Wench hour. I pretend I’m a medieval tavern wench closing up for the night to clean my apartment for a few minutes before bed.” Sounds fun and effective!
May 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Reading “On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear” by Lynn Casteel Harper. Provocative (if a little intense) 🤯 #booksky
Passage in Lynn Casteel Harper’s “On Vanishing” about the ways “madness” might purify us and expand minds
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Miss ya, mom. At every age and every stage, you were my best friend. Hope I’m making you proud ❤️
A young white teen girl sits next to her mother on the steps of a cabin on Orcas Island in Washington; both are wearing jeans and a white short. Mom has her arm around my shoulder. Photo of a mother, wearing sunglasses, and daughter around 2 or 3 years old, sitting on a lawn chair in the grass, circa 1985 A young mother in short shorts and a white cotton top helps her young daughter, back to the camera and wearing a striped short dress, get on a swing, circa 1985 A daughter sits beside her mother, who wears a blue long sleeve shirt while laying in bed. The daughter’s hand is over her mother’s, and a small bouquet of flowers from the garden sit on mom’s chest. Photo from 2022, shortly before mom passed from young-onset Alzheimers
May 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Awesome opening night for Collage-O-Rama. In Seattle? Swing by today for tons of World Collage Day fun! 10-4p, at Slip Gallery (2301 1st Ave.) 🎉🎉🎉
#collage #collageart #worldcollageday #blueskycollage #collageorama #seattle #seattleart
White woman in green clothes, Indian man in blue, and their child wearing a beige shirt covered in pins stand in front of a wall of green collage art 6 members of Northwest Collage Society (some in costume) stand in front wall of colorful monochrome collages Wide angle shot of galleryy wall covered in dozens colorful monochrome collages, being viewed by visitors at the gallery Wide angle shot of galleryy wall covered in dozens colorful monochrome collages, being viewed by visitors at the gallery
May 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Collage-O-Rama opens tomorrow, Seattle! I’m showing an installation of Wild Flowers 🌺Been helping put work up, and it’s such a beautiful, bighearted show. May 9-June 7, Slip Gallery, 2301 1st Ave., Seattle: www.specialagentcollagecollective.com/collage-o-rama
#seattle #collageart #blueskycollage
White gallery wall with 3 rows of 4x6” collages hung on it; it abuts brick wall on which large, 3-D flowers are installed A shiny gallery window; in foreground you see two blurry people, and in the background yiu see a welcoming gallery wall of colorful paper collages A white person wearing shorts, sleeveless shirt, and cap, dtands on a ladder hanging 3-D collaged flower forms on a brick wall View of a sidewalk-facing window in which a 3-D collaged flower form is suspended
May 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Super saturated flower power #bloomscrolling
Extreme closeup of inside flower that’s a beautiful fuchsia/magenta; you see darker speckled dots on one leaf, as well as pistil and stamen
May 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Sometimes you just wanna cut out lots o’ mouths and paste ‘em on the loveliest pastel purple poster. A tip a the hat to @hopeamico.com for original print, now adorned with …. lips, teeth, mouths, mouths, mouths.
#collageart #collageartist #surreal
Pale purple paper on which the word “mouth” printed in a shimmery gold, in a serif font. Above and below the word are photos of mouths, lips, teeth, cut sharply from vintage magazines. Mouths cut from vintage magazines, pasted to pale purple poster Pale purple paper on which the word “mouth” printed in a shimmery gold, in a serif font. Above and below the word are photos of mouths, lips, teeth, cut sharply from vintage magazines.
April 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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“Appreciate them” — another little paper collage, color and joy 🩵
#collage #cutandpaste #visualart #blueskycollage
Collage made from a black and white image of a womam that’s been cut in half and edged apart to fill the gap in her two halves with strips of paper in yellow, teal, purple, orange, and res, including a dandelion and a small bit of text that reads “there are those people who appreciate them.”
April 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM