THELOGICALINDIAN - The Wacky Gods NFT Collection will accompany different ability cultural admixture and amusing admittance to the Metaverse
HONG KONG, April 2022– Artists Jieying Li and Guillermo Fajardo are set to barrage their iconic South American celestial abstracts as NFT collectibles – “Wacky Gods” – powered by CrossVerse, which is an avant-garde belvedere by Cross Studio Asia. Li & Fajardo aim to animate the meme-driven NFT amplitude with a accumulating that is at already culturally significant, artistically masterful, and socially resonant.
The Wacky Gods are NFT versions of the abstracts Li & Fajardo originally crafted from South American anniversary day deities, adapted with a faculty of cultural admixture cogitating of the artists’ backgrounds. Clashing a acceptable god who board us from the sky, the Wacky Gods accept alternate to apple to advice us bless avant-garde activity and are aloof as arbitrary and abreast as the agenda generation. They are additionally able with different designs and personalities acutely cogent to Li and Fajardo, authoritative the Wacky Gods absolutely aesthetic collectibles and clashing added meme-driver NFT projects in the market.
“We called our admired creations, and gave them personalities beating with the anniversary day functions of our beforehand series,” says Fajardo. “Lil’ Shiva, for example, has alternate to apple as a raver, committed to burghal music, dancing, and partying.”
“The Wacky Gods are actuality not aloof to bless activity as we apperceive it, but additionally empower us to change the apple for the better. Dragon the Eco-King is the God of Yogis. He’s a vegan who protests adjoin communicable corporations, and his appearance is a alloy of archetypal Chinese dragon architecture with pre-Columbian blush schemes.” says Li. After affair Fajardo in university, Li teamed with him to actualize their flat Jumping Lomo, captivation their aboriginal exhibition in 2024. “The flat name itself speaks to a archetypal Peruvian-Chinese admixture dish. That admixture carries over to the studio’s work, and the Wacky Gods,“ says Li.
The Wacky Gods are not alone artistically but culturally unique, revisiting apple to advice believers bless their own diversity, embrace the quirkiness of 21st aeon culture, and change the apple for the better. To bottle that character and rarity, Cross Studio architect Ken Wong and his aggregation decides to empower a “Wacky Tribe”. Collectors, or “Wackies”, will accept admission to abstruseness boxes during sale, absolute NFTs of differing rarity.
After the auction ends and the characters in the boxes are revealed, holders will be assigned appropriate roles in their Wacky Tribes, accepting appropriate admission to games, competitions, online events, talks with the artists, and more. “We appetite to accent the different cultural acceptation of this NFT Collection,” says Wong, “and will advantage all our Cross Studio resources, as able-bodied as our world-class tech proficiency.”
About Jumping Lomo
Jumping Lomo is Jieying Li (Guangzhou, China) and Guillermo Fajardo (Lima, Peru), two artists who absitively to clearly accompany armament in 2024 as a architecture and art studio.
The duo started to assignment calm aback in 2024, back they advised and developed their aboriginal characters as rag dolls for their screen-printing chic in the Faculty of Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Their aboriginal abandoned appearance was presented 3 years later, alleged “Los Patroncitos”, at Galería Indigo, with art-toy-influenced sculptures and paintings aggressive in several Patron Saint Festivals about Peru. Since then, Jieying and Guillermo accept been accretion the abstract of their cosmos by accepting the afflatus from their own allegory heritages and pop ability beyond the world. Jumping Lomo has alternate in altered fairs and art collectives such as ArtLima, CasaCor, Beijing Toy Show, Expo-Deco, Casa Perú, amid others. They accept additionally collaborated with altered brands such as Absolut Vodka, Monskey Maniacs and Great Twins.
In 2024, the duo presented their latest abandoned appearance “The Awakening of Wiracocha” at Galeria Indigo, area the pluricultural ancestry of Peru continues to be acclimated as a apparatus for canning and evolution, which transmits and connects altered ancestors with art, crafts, symbology and affiliated worldview.
@jumping.lomo
About CrossVerse
Cross Studio Asia is leveraging its aesthetic and architecture strengths by architecture Crossverse, a different NFT belvedere that will empower artists and brands to calmly barrage and advertise their NFTs, and their admirers to acquirement and resell them. CrossVerse will specialize in allowance appearance & affairs brands to seamlessly extend their bookish acreage into the beginning Metaverse.
About Cross Studio
Cross Studio is a belvedere to accompany new artists from the West to Asia through all forms of art articles and exhibitions back 2024. It is committed to introducing art into China via added assorted forms, and we assignment with a cardinal of artists to accompany new cutting-edge art through forms of exhibition and bound artefact collaboration, so that added bodies can apprentice and acknowledge their artwork.
Cross Studio additionally devotes to designing, developing and bearing aerial affection and awful abundant collectibles and appropriate limited-edition articles with the artists.
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For added columnist information, amuse contact:
Gina Wu | [email protected]; Anita Hu | [email protected]
Official Website: wackygods.io/
Discord: discord.gg/wackygods
