The paper cities each comprise three separate sets. Each includes four sheets of corrugated fiberboard, cut in such a way that enables the user to assemble the pieces without the use of scissors or glue. Czajka is extremely shrewd in picking out the most typical elements of the landscape of the Polish People's Republic, such as murals or patterns painted on buses. In his work, they become refreshed. When combined, the three sets: blue and red, with typical houses, a fountain, and a bus; green and yellow, with a marketplace and a train station; and the most mobile one, in pink and purple, echoing the mood of hotels and petrol stations, form an aesthetically coherent landscape. The project was made entirely out of recycled materials.
Czajka applied a similar idea in his Animals (Zwierzęta) series, whose elements are also made of cardboard – and therefore sturdy and easy to fold. The carefully composed colour palette, based on reds and purples, makes for a friendly, but not naïve, project. The simplified, geometric animal figures somewhat resemble folk toys. Czajka also plays with patterns, thus adding a tinge of surreal humour to his bestiary. A spotted hyaena is accompanied by a mulitcoloured bear and a turtle with a chess board on its back.
