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A degree project I've been working on during May 2008. The theme was Nostalgia and Memories, which I associated to my Grandparents' summer cottage in the country. I think this is one of my best creations I did in school. 
(Hi)story
The cottage is over 100 years old. My Grandmother (from my Dad's side of relatives) was born in that cottage and has been living there for many years until she moved with her family to the city. They still kept the cottage as a Summer house to spend their warm Summerdays.
Grandmother owns a part of the house while another relative of hers owns the rest of the house. My family visited the cottage every Summer at least three times, sometimes up to ten times or more. It could be for a sleepover or be invited for lunch or just for a cup of coffee. I have many memories from it since my childhood when we were constantly visiting it, until that Summer in 2009 when we were there only two or three times.
My Grandparents are too old and Grandfather is too weak to go anywhere, so they will probably never visit their Summer cottage ever again. Even my family have limited their times there. No one has visited it for a long time, and it's not sure if it will still be there in these next three-four years. It's too old to be renovated and too dangerous. It could fall easily apart if they tried, and they would spend a lot of money as well. What will happen to it is up to Grandmother and to the other relative who own their part of the house. I find it very sad that it will not last long. Someday it will be gone and only the memories remains...
Edit: End of an era
Grandfather passed away in January 2017 and Grandmother passed away in March 2019. Since my Grandmother passed away, I'm not sure what will happen to the Summer cottage as now only the relative of hers owns the house. He will likely just demolish the house. At least dad didn't give me any hopes as he actually jokingly said that it will be destroyed, as if that was a fun thing... but not for me. It holds many memories so it will be sad to see it go. I don't know when it will happen and I haven't heard anything from the relative. But when that day comes, I will cry for sure.
About the model
So, this is my present to my Grandparents, now when they aren't able to visit their Summer house anymore. It's my thanks for their support in my 3-years-long studies at school. This model works like a Russian doll. It contains four more houses, each one smaller than the other, that are covered with various photos like a collage of my personal memories:
2nd model (after this big one) has got photos of the exterior of the cottage, meaning the surroundings.
3rd model has got photos of the interior, including some details that I was interested of under all these years.
4rd model has got photos of my family and relatives visiting the cottage during Summer.
5th and last model has got pictures of myself. The oldest one is when I was 7 years old, I think.
Materials
The houses are mainly made of thick, white cardboard which I cut with both scissors and box cutter. A lot of glue was used during the progress and a handful of photos that I've found in our old family album (80s-90s) and those I've taken myself (late 90s-early 2000s). The new photos were printed out directly from the computer while the older photos from family album were scanned and printed. All photos are printed in greyscale, but I colored some important details with watercolors (only on the "inner houses").
The models have been exhibited December 2008 in Nykarleby and August 2011 in Vasa, Finland.
(c) 2008-2011, C.H.
(Hi)story
The cottage is over 100 years old. My Grandmother (from my Dad's side of relatives) was born in that cottage and has been living there for many years until she moved with her family to the city. They still kept the cottage as a Summer house to spend their warm Summerdays.
Grandmother owns a part of the house while another relative of hers owns the rest of the house. My family visited the cottage every Summer at least three times, sometimes up to ten times or more. It could be for a sleepover or be invited for lunch or just for a cup of coffee. I have many memories from it since my childhood when we were constantly visiting it, until that Summer in 2009 when we were there only two or three times.
My Grandparents are too old and Grandfather is too weak to go anywhere, so they will probably never visit their Summer cottage ever again. Even my family have limited their times there. No one has visited it for a long time, and it's not sure if it will still be there in these next three-four years. It's too old to be renovated and too dangerous. It could fall easily apart if they tried, and they would spend a lot of money as well. What will happen to it is up to Grandmother and to the other relative who own their part of the house. I find it very sad that it will not last long. Someday it will be gone and only the memories remains...
Edit: End of an era
Grandfather passed away in January 2017 and Grandmother passed away in March 2019. Since my Grandmother passed away, I'm not sure what will happen to the Summer cottage as now only the relative of hers owns the house. He will likely just demolish the house. At least dad didn't give me any hopes as he actually jokingly said that it will be destroyed, as if that was a fun thing... but not for me. It holds many memories so it will be sad to see it go. I don't know when it will happen and I haven't heard anything from the relative. But when that day comes, I will cry for sure.
About the model
So, this is my present to my Grandparents, now when they aren't able to visit their Summer house anymore. It's my thanks for their support in my 3-years-long studies at school. This model works like a Russian doll. It contains four more houses, each one smaller than the other, that are covered with various photos like a collage of my personal memories:
2nd model (after this big one) has got photos of the exterior of the cottage, meaning the surroundings.
3rd model has got photos of the interior, including some details that I was interested of under all these years.
4rd model has got photos of my family and relatives visiting the cottage during Summer.
5th and last model has got pictures of myself. The oldest one is when I was 7 years old, I think.
Materials
The houses are mainly made of thick, white cardboard which I cut with both scissors and box cutter. A lot of glue was used during the progress and a handful of photos that I've found in our old family album (80s-90s) and those I've taken myself (late 90s-early 2000s). The new photos were printed out directly from the computer while the older photos from family album were scanned and printed. All photos are printed in greyscale, but I colored some important details with watercolors (only on the "inner houses").
The models have been exhibited December 2008 in Nykarleby and August 2011 in Vasa, Finland.
(c) 2008-2011, C.H.
Image size
820x615px 163.41 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot A510
Shutter Speed
1/202 second
Aperture
F/4.0
Focal Length
6 mm
Date Taken
May 28, 2008, 9:19:04 AM
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My grandma's house, though not a cottage (at least that style doesn't exist in Puerto Rico), was too an important part in my life, as I used to spend my weekends and most of my summers there, in my childhood and early teenhood. It even still keeps appearing in my dreams, even more than the house I grew up in. She and my grandpa have been living in that house for more than 40 years and there hasn't been much change to it; I know because I stayed there when I traveled to Puerto Rico for last Christmas.