Mix the charm of The Elves and the Shoemaker with the Napoleonic Lilliputians of Gulliver’s Travels and you’ve got “Kitchen,” the print piece by JWT/NY for Johnson & Johnson’s Visine.
The visual relates a myth about how all those tears get inside a wee bottle of Visine. Look closely: tireless miniature men conduct tear-gathering work around the frozen face and body of a glassy-eyed woman of normal size. Cut onions litter the table before her; elsewhere, tiny labourers bear buckets. One leans over a giant funnel and pours the harvested fluid into a Visine container.
“Natural tears formula. Don’t ask how,” the piece reads, crimson scrawl on a well-worn hanky.
Dark and beguiling, like good fairy tales often are.
