RADII: Jumping Lomo’s colorful characters are clearly inspired by sacred supernatural beings. RADII recently spoke with Li and Fajardo to learn more about Jumping Lomo, their artistic process, and their quirky gods : “ NFT art is not a thing yet,” says Fajardo of the medium, which puts them ahead of the game in their part of the world. Wacky Gods marks their first NFT art series. While the character design and art studio’s previous characters were commercialized by way of collectible toys, wearable pins, and household accessories, its founders - like their imagined gods - are evolving and have recently embraced digital assets.
Īlbeit being inspired by a pantheon of gods, the artist duo known as Jumping Lomo identify as agnosticįine art faculty members turned collaborators, creators Guillermo Fajardo (from Lima, Peru) and Jieying Li (born in Guangzhou, China) have run Jumping Lomo since 2013. The series’ five deities range from Wacky TikTok Goddess of Gossip Pheme, who is rarely seen without her selfie stick, to Wacky God of Music and Party Lil’ Shiva, whose presence is paramount to an epic night out. ‘ Shooketh ’ by 21st-century culture in all its pop and plastic glory, Jumping Lomo’s Wacky Gods are less concerned with famine and fertility and more obsessed with ‘likes.’ In Lima, Peru, an agnostic couple are approaching the question with new vigor. His (mis)adventures on Earth are chronicled in the 16th-century epic Journey to the West, one of China’s Four Great Classical Novels (四大名著). In China, everyone’s favorite mythological trickster Sun Wukong flitted among humans, deities, and demons with equal familiarity. In Norse mythology, the hammer-wielding, lightning-throwing god Thor harbored a soft spot for our puny kind and was notorious for shacking up with scores of human lovers. What if gods were to move among us? A concept revisited time and again, the question is a catalyst for a thousand imaginings.
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