RACHEL EATON
COLLAGE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
CV
EDUCATION
2006 - 2009
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS
BACHELOR OF SOCIOLOGY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016
A NORTHWEST COLLAGE SHOWCASE - POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS 1005 W. Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209
2014
PRINT SHOW - MONARCH 101 6th St. San Francisco, CA 94103
2013
PRINT SHOW - THE LOOKOUT 757 Bellevue Ave E. Seattle, WA 98102
WE TEND TO THINK OF LIFE AS BEING UNPREDICTABLE AND RANDOM, RATHER LIKE THE WEATHER, A CHAIN OF UNCONNECTED EXPERIENCES FLOWING LIKE AN ARROW THROUGH TIME. A CLOSER LOOK HAS CONVINCED ME THAT LIFE IS MORE LIKE AN ECOSYSTEM THAN A LINEAR EQUATION: ALL THE PARTS ARE INTERCONNECTED. THIS FEELING FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THINGS -- SEEING THE WORLD AS A CAT'S CRADLE OF INTERCONNECTIONS RATHER THAN AS A SET OF ISOLATED FRAGMENTS -- IS SOMETHING I LEARNED FROM BEING A COLLAGE ARTIST: EVERYTHING IS RELATED TO EVERYTHING ELSE. NOTHING IS ISOLATED. NOTHING EXISTS SEPARATELY FROM ALL THE REST. AND SYCHRONICITIES ARE THE NODAL POINTS, MAGIC MOMENTS WHERE SEEMINGLY UNRELATED EVENTS ARE WOVEN TOGETHER TO FORM A SINGLE, UNDIVIDED WORLD FABRIC.
-SUZI GABLIK