street art

Scores of these giant iron figures have been sat guarding the city's main traffic artery - El Paseo de la Castellana / Paseo del Prado - for the last few months now. Its kind of refreshing to see such strange alien beasts out in the open with so much ordinary life going on around them. According to the artist's blurb they are supposed to make us stop and think about civilisations gone by, and thus 'contemplate the fragility of our own times...'