Glashuset
in Umeå

The Glass House

About my walks to this nice house
in summer and winter

2010-12-13. Me by The Glass House in Umeå.
2011-05-09. Me by the Glass House and the sculpture Standing man.
2010-08-10. They were building The Glass House in Umeå.
2010-08-10.
2010-08-23. The house is almost ready.

2010-08-23. The house was ready.       About The Glass House.

2010-08-26. Reidar Rova made this nice sculpture. But it melted soon because it was summer.
2010-08-26. The statue in front of The Glass House is made by Sean Henry. It's named "Standing Man".
There were people who made the Standing Man funny. Here somebody had given him a hat. Sometimes he also got a scarf. This picture was taken 2011-01-26.
Me standing beside Standing Man. The square has bare ground because there are heaters under the ground that keeps it free from snow. That's why there only is snow on the Standing man and the bench.
2010-08-29. People were listening to music.
2010-09-01. 2010-09-01. The Sami were in The Glass House. Me by a reindeer skin and antlers.
2010-11-04. They recorded some of the events to a computer and we could see this on the Internet.
2010-11-11. Reidar Rove made this chair of ice. I loved his ice sculptures.
2010-11-16. Children were singing.
2010-11-18. This day they hade about language teaching. They had a Spanish flag on a table.
2010-11-30. Ove in front of The Glass House.
2010-12-13. Today they made small verses for Christmas presents. They wrote a verse for the present I should give to my son.
2010-12-13.  Happy me waiting for the verse.
2010-12-27. There were no activities in the Christmas holidays. They had a star in the house.
2011-01-11. This day there were fabric designers in The Glass House
2011-01-11. They made a double hooded cape. The woman told it was a cape for two people.
2011-01-11. A designer had made a foldable table. It was the meaning you could fold the right side of the table over the puzzle if did not use the puzzle.
2011-01-12. Everyone could help to make this puzzle. I also put some bits on it's place.
2011-01-12. The heaters under the ground on the square were broken. That's why there was a lot of snow. They had to plow away the snow.
2011-01-16. The children liked it to play on the snow hill.
2011-01-16. Children could paint jars and have a candle in it.
2011-01-16. They placed the lights in front of The Glass House.
2011-01-20. I never have been painting. And dare not to do it. But I did it in The Glass House. It was so much fun.
2011-01-20. I painted about my longing for spring and colours.
2011-01-20. We painted it on transparencies. And they hung out it in the windows of The Glass House.
2011-01-20. My painting was now hanging in the window of The Glass House.
2011-01-20. "Kram" means "Hugs" I think this is so nice. We all need a hug :-)
2011-01-20. We also could make small things of the top and bottom of plastic bottles and of straw..
2011-01-20. Cosy lights  in "The blue hour".
2011-01-20. I liked the red light, it looks so cosy.
2011-01-20.
2011-01-20. More lights shining in "The blue hour".
2011-01-20. There was much snow this winter.
2011-01-20. Now Standing men was standing in the snow. It was nice with the snow on the tree.
2011-01-20. The Standing Man by the Glass House.
2011-02-03. This day the university showed "Bild terapi", Art Therapy. They have the courses at The Department of Occupational Therapy. I worked there in the past. So these people were my former colleagues. I was the whole afternoon in The Glass House and also listened to a lecture about Art Therapy.
2011-02-03. We could try to paint or draw. This drawing is me and another woman.

They put on an overhead projector. Then the silhouette of me and the other woman was showing on the paper. They drew the contour. Then I painted it. It was real fun for me to have this drawing hanging in The Glass House.

2011-02-03. Art Therapy.

2011-02-14.Late in the afternoon I went to The Glass House. They should show Dutch shadow theatre. Children made this theatre and they did it so well. There were two people who could talk Dutch and it was fun for me to talk Dutch a while.

2011-02-16. There were many pigeons on the market place.
2011-03-07. In the Sami week they had reindeer by The Glass House. Me and a reindeer.

I made a separeat site about the reindeer by the Glass House

2011-03-11. Sami week by The Glass House.
2011-03-11. A beautiful Sami cape in The Glass House. A Sami told me it's called "Stormkrage". It protects you against storm.
2011-03-15. Daffodils in a vase in front of The Glass House. They took in them at night when it was colder.
2011-04-19. Dancing in front of the Glass House.
2011-05-03. I think they had art on fabrics in The Glass House this day. But I'm not sure.
2011-05-03. A nice barrel with tulips by The Glass House
2011-05-26. Kultur på Campus. (Culture at Campus) They were singing and playing music.
2011-06-13. A funny table in The Glass House.
2011-07-25. They showed bee by The Glass House. Fortunately they were in a glass case.  :)

2011-10-18. Ove by the Glass house. They were making a canoe of a wood stock.

2011-11-02. Me drinking coffee in a Sami tent by The Glass House.
2011-11-30. I had put my camera on a metal box for electric power. The Glass House was reflecting in the box. It looked cosy inside The Glass House.
2012-02-06. It was cold today. Me in my Arctic jacket by the Sami tent.
2012-11-26. 
2013-04-02. It was snowing!
2013-04-05. Ove in front of the Glass House in his nice Fjällräven jacket.
2013-05-03. Music by The Glass House.
2013-05-13. They had a day about water. We got a water bottle. I have used my bottle on  my walks when it was warm.
2013-11-18.
2014-01-31. Winter town. They made this for the opening of Umeå Culture Capital 2014.
2014-01-31. They had shut off the heaters under the square. It was the meaning the square should be covered with snow for Winter Town.
2014-10-16. Here I'm playing a game. I could see myself on the screen.
2014-10-26. Art and The Standing Man.
2014-12-18.
2015-01-28. Umeå should sell The Glass House. I took some pictures of the house.
2015-02-09.
2015-02-09. There was a sign on the door of the Glass House it said: The dismantling of The Glass House takes place in mid-February and is expected to take three working days.
2015-02-11. I was there when they dismantled the house.
2015-02-11. This was the last day I saw The Glass House.
2015-02-11.
2015-02-11. Taking away the windows
2015-02-11. Lifting up a glass window.
2015-02-11. Some windows that were taken down in a rack..
2015-02-12. Now only bits of the floor were there.
2015-02-12. The Standing Man by the dismantled Glass house. Look, he had got a warm muffler.
The last time I visited The Glass House was 2014-12-19. We got glögg in small glasses. They tod we may keep the glasses.
The glasses also could be used for candle lights. They are on my kitchen table and I light them every night in memory of The Glass House.
 
The Glass house got a new owner, Granö Beckasin and it's now standing in beautiful nature.
Granö Beckasin's home page

Photo: Wilhelmina and Ove Schedin

Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-09-28