Allie Torrey

Shoots and roots (hyphae)/fragments of old dreams

Fort like structure 3’H X3’L X2.5’W
Old sourced t shirts dyed and striped dye plant dyes and long embroidered tags
Wood, metal, old school book, seeds, fungi

Spacial materials
Infrared light, woven floor,petrichor

Shoots and roots (hyphae)/fragments of old dreams

Fort like structure 3’H X3’L X2.5’W
Old sourced t shirts dyed and striped dye plant dyes and long embroidered tags
Wood, metal, old school book, seeds, fungi

Housing for memories microbes and other paraphernalia

Low box structures tilles

48” x 14”
24”x 10”
Tiled planter table top, fungi house,
Video slime mold searching for food

Fungal bodies

bar high hand made table, green tile glass jar, (slime mold protist), mushrooms and mycelium

Fungal bodies

bar high hand made table, green tile glass jar, (slime mold protist), mushrooms and mycelium

Artist Statement

My thesis at its core presents a conversation about biocompatibility within spaces that are actively designing out our survival. I use sensory stimuli to create spaces that link us with our non-human counterparts. I excavate my memory and dreams as a means of archival mapping — echoing the way the hyphae of mycelium weaves its way through the sweet soil to find nutrients, food, and recall and sustain relationships. The way we perceive ourselves in dreams as extra bodily entities that extend beyond themselves into space, and the way we create our own immersive environments this is something I am to physicalize within my practice. The entanglement and permeation of the self as a boundless, and porous construct which I am exploring within my thesis with the help of fungi and microbes. Common underlying themes in my work are: sustainability, memory, and identity. My visual representation is heavily inspired by tactical fixations, environmental symmetry, and dream imagery which acts as a form of archival mapping “ all strings attached” which is how I feel about the way I map when I create work. I do this through space creating. “a world/within a world” in which the topic I’m working with exists in its own perfect ecology, using sculpture as the focal point. When we strive towards a more entangled collective future, participation in these entangled spaces of art tell stories that  build worlds around what it looks like to be in a biodiverse community we’re writing that into our future as part of our shared imaginings.