KLAGENFURT – Yellow hawkweed necklace

Description

Hieracium caespitosum

Klagenfurt / Celovec. The famous Lake Vrbsko JEZERO is located next to the city and attracts many  people to nature’s embrace every year. During our walk along the water, my attention was drawn to the weeds growing out of the pier. It is called yellow hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum) or, in German, Wiesen-Habichtskraut. I have chosen the two flower buds, which also became casts for a musical city bracelet.

Although our primary premise is that nature belongs to no one but itself, this particular part of the earth, Klagenfurt-Celovec, is clearly a meeting point of two cultures and two languages (German and Slovenian). That’s why we called this part of the project “Bilingual Plant” or “Zweisprachige Pflanze.” In honor of the weed, we played a Carinthian folk song, “Rož, Podjuna, Zila,” which tells the story of the three valleys in Austrian Carinthia where Slovenians live.

The Klagenfurt bilingual plant is available as jewelry in the form of a necklace and a unisex bracelet.