The American illustrator creates perfect, closed atmospheres that function as face masks
They have spread across the Internet due to the coronavirus pandemic. We could be talking about fake news and conspiracy plots, but no: we are referring to the drawings that Kit Layfield uploads to his Instagram profile and which, as the mask has become a new item of clothing, are a breath of fresh air... never better said.
The Philadelphia-based illustrator creates incredible gadgets that not only cover the lower part of the face, but also allow you to breathe pure oxygen thanks to their internal atmospheres: necklaces that are fish tanks inhabited by mythological beings, jungles and vines in the hair, small bonsai trees that produce a portable ecosystem... Everything imaginable to decorate face masks (aside from the current more or less successful embroidery or prints).
Masks against Climate Change
The artist works on these flourishing microsystems, as they have been defined, because of his concern with what he calls digital climate change. This not only allows him to play and define a style based on detail, but also helps his fans to follow his process by also publishing the sketches on which he then elaborates the final design of these excessive dystopias, in which extravagance is put at the service of the practical and useful: tiny artificial paradises that we will never know… or maybe we will.
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