Rebecca Plachte-Zuieback is a fiber and textile collage artist based in Northern California. Her work is constructed from reclaimed fabrics, layered and machine-stitched 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 material history 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.