seeming at Soo Visual Art Center was Torey’s first solo exhibition in 2018. Seeming brings together a suite of sculpture, photography, and film portraying contemplations of mortality, the theater of reality, ritual, and temporality.

Torey examines the poetic nature of the physical world with an installation of “ash capsules” or stone urns with bronze cone shaped caps. The urns were drawn from her late grandmother’s ash burial in a curling rock. They are associated with humility, impermanence. “The birds will not even eat us, we are so full of toxins.”

These sculptures, along with photographs of raw silk point to the natural phenomenon of metamorphosis. She creates her own simple imposition of transforming a tree into paper, printing the geolocation of the tree onto the paper, encouraging people to transport themselves to the tree. In the gallery wall there is a peephole with films projected on the inside of the wall for the viewer to see - a window into a dream.

The notion of objects, subjects, and things ‘becoming’ rather than being, is a major theme throughout the work. The world is breath and all that exists in it is form, closely bound to the structure of the crust.