{"id":18440,"date":"2026-07-22T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/werke\/the-center-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:33:31","slug":"the-center-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/werke\/the-center-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Center of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A small winged heart made of pink cubic zirconia serves as the starting point for this assemblage. Found in the Boberg Dunes in Hamburg, it is a fragment of a lost belly button piercing\u2014and gave the work its name. <\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The navel marks our personal origin\u2014a former connection that has long since been severed yet remains visible. In this work, the small piece of jewelry becomes the center of a world all its own: a landscape of grasses, seed pods, plant remains, and small found objects, in which each element brings its own story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>Grasses<\/li>\n<li>Rosendorn \u2013 as the Thornbird<\/li>\n<li>yellow parakeet feather<\/li>\n<li>Alder cone \u2013 as the &#8220;Alder Wren&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Poppy Capsules<\/li>\n<li>Fluttering elm seeds<\/li>\n<li>Birch seed leaves<\/li>\n<li>Pea vines<\/li>\n<li>Wrapping paper<\/li>\n<li>Ceramic Cigarette Filters<\/li>\n<li>Check slip No. 49<\/li>\n<li>other dried plant and natural materials<\/li>\n<li>Fragment of a lost belly button piercing with pink cubic zirconia and silver wings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u201cNavel of the World\u201d<\/strong> is part of the <strong>\u201cFederzeichen\u201d<\/strong> series <strong>.<\/strong> From the chance discovery of a small piece of jewelry emerges a multi-layered assemblage exploring the center, the origin, and the meaning that things take on as soon as we begin to look more closely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;Navel of the World<\/strong> &#8221; is a distinctive assemblage by Magdalena Hohlweg, created from a variety of plant materials and other unconventional found objects. Amid grasses, seed pods, and bizarre fragments of nature, the viewer encounters tiny bird-like creatures that have emerged from the unusual shapes of the found objects. <\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">At the center of this unique little world is a fragment of a lost belly button piercing\u2014a winged heart made of pink cubic zirconia, which gave the piece its name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Assemblage of various plant materials and other found objects \u00b7 tiny bird-like creatures \u00b7 ready-framed \u00b7 museum-quality glass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A distinctive work from the series  <strong>&#8220;Feather Symbol&#8221;<\/strong>  \u2013 typical Magdalena Hohlweg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18441,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[820,262,823,822,691],"product_tag":[767,284,781,787],"pdp_layout_selection":[688],"class_list":["post-18440","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-assemblage-en","product_cat-birdart-en","product_cat-federzeichen","product_cat-miniature-collage","product_cat-work-series","product_tag-assemblage","product_tag-miniature-collage","product_tag-original-art","product_tag-wall-art","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18440"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18440"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18440"},{"taxonomy":"pdp_layout_selection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hohlweg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pdp_layout_selection?post=18440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}