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M-city is one of those “next level”
street art projects that absolutely blows us away because of the sheer
creativity and passion of the artists.

From M-city’s website:
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M-city in a first place is a play with the form and space of the city,
played on the walls, posters, billboards, stickers and in the virtual world. All
of the pieces of M-city - there is about 100 of them - were made as stencils.
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The first step of preparation is a sketch of a given building on the A4
paper. Such drawing is being drawn in isometric perspective and inscribed into a
couple of cubes one on top of the other. Thanks to such a technique printing the
stencil is much easier, moreover it allows printing a single fragment of the
building. All of the buildings can be joined in multiple ways with author’s
imagination as the only limit. It’s easy to customise the buildings by mixing
the roofs and elevations - parts of different stencils. All of the objects have
a brighter left face and a darker right face which adds them the depth and
vividness. After the sketch is done it’s being enlarged to A2 format and
laminated on both sides. The late guarantees long-term resilience of the
stencil, proofing it against absorption of the paint. As the layers of the paint
get too thick it’s easy to tear them down and use the stencil again (some of the
stencils were used hundreds of times). Finally the stencil is being cut out.
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The printing itself does not appear to be much of a problem. It’s
important to begin printing from the bottom of the project, as the foreground
must be printed first (it would be impossible to print it later avoiding
permeation of previously printed stencils). Obviously it’s possible to use masks
and retouches but it makes the work much more toilsome. Before printing the
project is very general and limited to the outline of the city, possibly zoning
the space into industrial, public, living etc. areas. The streets and buildings
planning is never being done, it comes to life during the printing as the work
goes on.

The inspiration to the architecture of M-city came mostly
from the architecture of Threecity (Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia, Baltic coast, north
of Poland) and it’s surroundings, but there’s no avoiding of motifs from other
regions of Poland.
The architecture of the town is in a sense a promotion
of groups of people who work together for society. These include independent
media, charities, non-governmental organisations, off theatres etc. Most of the
project realisations are on especially chosen walls and matching the historical
or architectural context of the surroundings. People on the stencils are mostly
author’s friends or people involved in some local social activity.

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opportunity for friends and sometimes occasional bystanders to help the author
paint. Such meetings had an atmosphere of a picnic, most of the helpers were at
least a bit introduced to a stencil technique, and the technique itself is not a
demanding one. It’s enough to have imagination and a drive for creation, and one
can be very creative at work with stencils. What’s interesting is that
unconsciously people often tend to create their own town/district - people
living in blocks of flats tend to paint b.o.f., people from villas tend to build
villas, people from around the port will surely picture the port etc. The same
refers to the figures appearing in the Cities - they seem to have a story on
their own.

At www.m-city.org you can find an interactive application
for constructing the cities on your own, from the same elements as were used in
the real world. The constructor came to life to prolong the life of Cities when
they cease existing in the real world. Up to date Cities were built in:
Threecity, Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, Toru? and Pozna?