MADRID

Throughout our entire Madrid trip we would constantly bring up the words that we diagram like spectacle, trauma, retreat, etc. Some of these words came up in the Reina Sophia, and of the Guarnica by Pablo Picasso was a spectacle to many of us.


Our group of 12 was probably a big spectacle for some of the people of Madrid, especially when we went out to Plaza de Sol to sketch and drink boxed Sangria, and drunk teenagers would look over us to get a peak of what we were drawing, or when 12 cameras start flashing everywhere.

Or maybe we are spectacles when we start jumping off of local monuments.


There are places of retreat everywhere in Madrid especially the park, which is like the central park of Madrid. There was the crystal palace and a man-made lake where we could row a boat.

For me, the weekly flea market in Madrid was definitely a place of trauma and retreat. It was so so crowded, I didn't want to buy anything I just wanted to retreat, just get the heck out of there. I think a few of the girls thought differently as they bought a bunch of bags for themselves.

For some reason we had an obsession with American fast-food chains like McDonald's and KFC. I guess the invasion from the globalization of American goods was a good things for us.

-Shawn Tsao