My time in Madrid made me think a lot about our own current way of life. If you think about it we live according to the sun, it’s natural, our time variates around it. It’s like that for everybody. But Madrid made me realise it because that interaction locals have with sunlight is so much more amplified. Their schedule is based around sunlight and temperature. The most obvious and powerful example is of course the «siesta». This break in the middle of the day to avoid the daily peak of temperature.

It felt to me like the entire city was living alongside this sunlight. It governs every timing and movement of the city. For two hours everyday, the sun is burning the colourful walls of the city making the atmosphere warm and suffocating. People escape, seek shade, stay home and don’t move until the timing is right and that curfew over. As if our own movements and schedules were not in our control anymore but dictated by a higher authority, the sun.