About
My fabric collages began as a way to use the scrap fabric left behind from making handmade reusables through Sustainable For Good, my product-based studio. Rather than discarding these remnants, I began arranging them into scenes—letting color, texture, and intuition lead. Over time, those scenes grew into worlds.
The work invites viewers to step into imagined spaces shaped by magic, balance, freedom, and unity—worlds free from conflict and limitation. In these places, anything can happen: unicorns pause for tea with deer, colorful animals dance without reason, cats with fishing poles appear beside water, and small communities exist within larger ones, all connected. There are no rules—only curiosity, coexistence, and wonder. I make these collages to imagine gentler worlds, and to offer pieces of that imagination into people’s homes.
Light, water, and elements of the natural world weave through the imagery, creating a sense of movement and depth. From a distance, each piece often reads as a single cohesive image; up close, it reveals hidden details, textures, and layered narratives. The work shifts as the viewer moves, lingers, and looks again.
Stitched slowly on a sewing machine, the collages embrace imperfection—visible seams, layered edges, and traces of process. These marks are intentional. They reflect care, time, and the beauty of things made by hand. What remains is not just an image, but a place to pause, wander, and imagine.
ARTIST BIO
Rebecca Plachte-Zuieback is a fiber and textile collage artist based in Northern California. Her work is built through layered fabric and machine stitching to create imagined landscapes that explore coexistence, balance, and quiet narrative.
Originally emerging from a sustainability-focused studio practice, her collage work began as a way to thoughtfully use leftover materials and evolved into immersive, detail-rich worlds. From a distance, the work reads as a single cohesive landscape; up close, it reveals overlapping textures, hidden figures, and small moments stitched together over time.
Plachte-Zuieback’s practice embraces imperfection, visible stitching, and traces of process as integral elements of the work. Through layered textiles, light, water, and natural forms, her collages invite viewers into spaces where idealism is not naïve, and a sense of magic, freedom, and unity can exist.