Behind the masks: Jason McLeod Jewelry updates its inventory for 2020

Jason McLeod's artisan jewelry career path was informed by car crashes Back in the early aughts, McLeod was living in Oakland, California, and running an advertising and graphic design business when a pair of back-to-back fender benders laid him up long-term in the hospital He needed something to fill the hours, and "I just started making jewelry as a way to keep my hands and my mind busy," McLeod says.

McLeod has established himself as a local artisan whose work has a unique, speculative twist The goal, McLeod says, is to create products that "Look like they're from the past and the future." On the mask's two respirators, McLeod inserted golden versions of the earth and the sun-specifically, its corona The celestial, global aspect is what initially inspired McLeod to make the mask. Source