“Hosting collective weaving experiences, the sprawling works of Samira Vogel reincarnate the act of gathering around fiber. Over the years, Vogel has organized a group of makers with whom she plants, grows, and spins the yarn they use to produce collective, interactive looms. Together they deindustrialize this material, engaging with this labor in their free time, thus asserting the power of leisure. Living and teaching these processes to one another, Vogel and her collaborators are reunited with this ecological knowledge. Working with it in “free” time is one of the few ways to access and use this history today. The will of the plant also returns to the process. Recognizing the soil, stalks, and hands that take part in growing the seed, weaving is an act both human and floral.” Excerpt from an essay on Samira Vogel by Brianna Leatherbury