Foxy's
winter adventures
 Part 96

 

The Standing man

Winter 2017. I have got a new friend. He is standing on the square in Umeå. His name is The Standing Man. No, he is not a real man. He is a sculpture.
The artist Sean Henry made  him and our town bought him in the year 208. Here he is new and his face is not so weather-beaten on this picture as today.
I took this picture 208-06-28. He was placed on the market place. He is made of bronze.

Our town also bought Sean Henry's sculpture Trajan's Shadow in the Sculpture park in the district, Umedalen. People call him "Standing man" too. Ove took this picture 2008-07-23.

But the name is Trajan's Shadow. You can see the painted a shadow of the man on the post. I took this picture 2008-07-23. I call him a brother to The Standing Man. :-)

Ove took this picture of me and The man 2017-10-28. As you see the man is much bigger as I. But the artist made him bigger as a real human.
2011-01-21. Standing man and the Glass house in the background. there was a lot of snow that year.
2011-01-26. Sometimes they put on this man clothes or a hat. It was cold that day and somebody had given him a winter hat.
2011-05-09. Me and the standing man. In the background the Glass house (The Glass House is now is moved to Granö) Here people had given the man a balloon.
2012-01-20. Me and The standing man. He had had snow on his shoulders.
The Standing Man 2013-04-25. The Glass house in the background.
The Standing man 2015-01-21
2015-01-28. Here somebody had given the man a scarf and a kind of apron.
They build a new market place. This picture of the work was taken 2017-03-27. When they worked here, The Standing Man was moved to a storing room. You was not allowed to go on the building place but we could take pictures through the grating of the fence. This machine is putting the paving stones on the ground.
2017-10-25. Now the market place was almost ready. The had put back the standing man. But he was still behind the fence on the building place. The workers were sweeping grit in the joints of the paving stones. Then a worker placed the broom against the Standing Man. Maybe he should help the workers sweeping :-)
2017-10-28. They opened the new market place. Me and the standing Man. It was bitter cold that day. I soon had to change to my winter jacket. There is a lost glove by the foot of The Standing Man.
2017-10-28. They had big vases, kind of artwork with running water. Me touching the water.

But they only could have the water running that day. They had to shut off it for the winter. But next summer when the frost is gone the water can run again.

2017-10-28. Me by a vase.
2017-10-31 Another vase. The water was now shut off.
2017-10-31 When the water is on it will run in the little canal at the left of the picture.
2017-10-31. The Standing Man on the new market place.
2017-11-10. He, he now the people are funny again with The Standing Man. He got a warm winter hat.
2017-11-17. You can buy fresh bread in the bakery by the culture house.
2017-11-17. The rain was pouring down and there was hard wind. Then somebody had put a hooded jacket on The Standing Man.
2017-11-17. The Hooded Man :-D
2017-11-17. People I met were laughing about the hooded jacket  and said: The weather is so rough, the man needs a hooded jacket.
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2017-11-18. Hooded me and the hooded man.
2017-11-18. We almost has the same colour on our jackets.
2017-11-21. But what happened now??? Somebody put the jacket on the rostrum. The Standing Man in the background without the jacket.
2017-11-21. The Standing man with snow in his hair.
2017-11-23. The next day The Standing Man had his jacket back. It was rough weather that day.
2017-11-23. It was snowing so heavy and it was cold. Then the heaters under the ground did not work.
2017-11-23. A little Christmas tree in the snow
2017-11-23. The hard wind tipped over the tree. Also the bike tipped over.
2017-11-23. A tractor in the snow on the bus station.
2017-11-23. Drifted snow on the seats at the bus station.
2017-11-25. The heaters under the ground could little by little melt the snow.
2017-11-25. Somebody had put a hamburger bag in the collar of the man's jacket. :-(
2017-11-25. I did not like this and took it away and put it in the recycle bin.
2017-11-25. This old hot dog stall has been in our museum. It has a story and it may stand on the market place. A man is selling hot dogs. The stall is near the Standing Man. He don't need to be hungry :-)
2017-11-25. The market place and the whole place around the old town hall has heaters and bare ground. I started walking there because then I did not need my spike shoes. The sun was going up.
2017-11-25. The old town hall. Front side.
2017-11-25. The old town hall, east side.
2017-11-30. They put trees on the market place. The reason the trees has snow and the ground not, is because of the heaters.
2017-11-30. I have seen how they made these heaters. These are now under the pavement.
2017-11-30. There is snow in the park. No heaters there. But why does it smoke in the park?!
2017-11-30. I put on my spike overshoes and walked down to the river.
2017-11-30. No, it was not serious. The were defrosting some frozen pipes under the ground.
2017-11-30. A tree in the shopping street.
2017-11-30. The big Christmas tree is on the other market place. Also there are heaters under the ground.
2017-11-30. We got much snow. The saddle got a snow cushion. :-)
2017-11-30. Somebody put on a tomte (Santa) hat on The Standing Man :-D
2017-11-30. Me and other people were smiling about it. The Santa Man :-D
2017-11-30. Small Christmas trees in the park.
2017-11-30. I like these Christmas lights so much.
2017-12-04. The Standing Man had an armband.
2017-12-04. The text said:
Give somebody a compliment
It can make the person's day
                               Kindness calendar

Vi have Advent calendars in Sweden and you open a little door in it every day. The person who wrote the text was referring to the Advent calendar.

2017-12-04. Things were happening. They put barracks on the market place.
2017-12-04. This was for Musikhjälpen. Music help. A big event.
2017-12-04. Here they are installing more barracks. Observe the long plastic ribbon. They should close a bit of the place with the ribbon.

and then...........

......the ribbon said "Crash "and broke in 2 peaces! They had to tie the ribbon ;-)
2017-12-07. Later they hade tarpaulins around the barracks.
2017-12-12. They were sending on the radio and Internet from this cage. All kind of people were helping to collect money for children.
2017-12-12. They put up tents there you could buy coffee. The money you gave for the coffee was also for helping the children. The backside of the tent was near The Standing Man.
2017-12-12.  The Standing Man behind the Coffee tent.
2017-12-12. I bought a cup of coffee in this tent.
2017-12-12. Two Star Wars figures came to me. Shadow Trooper and Storm Trooper. I gave money and got my picture taken. We had a lot of fun.
2017-12-12. A picture of me in "The blue hour".
2017-12-12. A picture of me by the same tree. Now it was darker
2017-12-14. The rain was pouring down. Not many people were on Musik hjälpen that day. But I kelp dry in my good jacket. And the camel had thick fur.
2017-12-14. I have seen this camel before on a farm en fed it an pet it. I pet the camel today too. The fur felt real wet.
2017-12-19. Somebody put a T-shirt on the man. But the T-shirt was too small for him.
2017-12-19.
2017-12-21. Sunrise over the river.
2018-01-03. Much snow in our street.
2018-01-03. The culture house and a snowman in the park.
2018-01-03. Sunrise over the river.
2018-01-03. I want to hold your hand. (Beatles song) :-D
2018-01-12. Ove by the trees.
2018-01-19. The Standing man and me. He has snow on his shoes, his shoulder and his head. Ove bought this beige backpack this day It looks real pretty.
2018-01-19. He, he, I have a snowball on my face. :-D. No, it was a snowflake that happened to be in front of Ove's lens.
Ove and I took the pictures I published in these sites.
 
But others has taken pictures too. Just type "standing man in umeå" Then you will see a link named "Bilder på standing man umeå" There are many pictures of him. He, he, is a popular guy :-)

Wilhelmina Schedin 2018-01-23