Disarming Design
Samira Vogel+
Samira Vogel is a weaver, artist and educator from Switzerland, based in Amsterdam.
She uses weaving not only as a material and carrier of stories but also as a method and a tool to think through different processes of making and being. Samira explores the nature of collectivity by creating interactive weaving installations.
Sowing the seeds,
one hand per row.
Something to grow
and nurture.
An invitation to care.
The surface being built while making,
thread by thread growing,
row after row.
Weaving as building.
Narration, in drawn or written form, starts from a line;
with the forming of letters, the line becomes a building block for texts.
The striation of nature into the thread, and from there as a
building element to weave fabric, or as a binding element
to stitch and patch things together.
The line as a path through two or more points,
derived from the event of a thread.
The word ‘line’
from Latin linea: linen thread,
the longer fiber of flax.
Before the line, there was the thread.
The field as an archive.
Flax sown in rows,
as horizontal lines drawn into the soil.
Handspun linen vertically suspended,
held in tension by broken bricks.
A loom in space forms.