This is my vision of the Spanish siesta, this unique time of the day in which mind rests numb and everything stops, outdoors there's heat and the relentless kingdom of the Sun. Understand this special time is not easy, if you have not experienced it in situ, as it doesn't deal just with resting, revealing itself a moment with its own name and guidelines. You can sleep or not, lying down or sitting, but if you do something that would be only fanning or looking at the ceiling ... it's prohibited to consider anything other than an abstraction. The mind does not remember that hour and a half, does not really ... all you have to do is "let time flow"!.

No one thinks of calling or paying a visit in the siesta, it would be stark raving, inappropriate, unacceptable to the unthinkable. If the phone rings in the siesta is something considered of the most urgent and we whispered for sure... "who's the hell calling now? (!). No one is available to anyone. I'm afraid it would be as intimate as shower time. Siesta is related to fresh corners, shadows, listening to birds, cicadas ... without disturbing. In sum, the most unique feature of summer time and it goes from 15:30 to 17:00. Children are often scold to be quiet and silent, so they begin to internalize from small its true meaning.

I feel it as a time to enjoy lights above all, balmy and tender sounds around us, a switching off because afterwards we can't remember anything. Everything is golden or yellow and the queen is penumbra. Maybe how we've succeeded in making bearable so many hours of heat; just the way we're and...