Yaron Steinberg returned to live in Jerusalem after several years in the north. He immediately noticed the many shops that had closed and remained abandoned throughout the city—streets he remembered as bustling with life and filled with tourists were now deserted, with empty storefronts and “For Rent” signs. The project “Metropolis” creates an imaginary, friendly, and mysterious world that grew organically in one of those empty shops. It seems as though the city grew on its own, containing within it a microcosm—a world of fantasy and mystery in one magical corner of the city.