Universe has many secrets never heard by anyone, many unsolved riddles without hints, many premises not proved yet. However, humanity invests in countless assumptions to put their life in order. Some things are always bad and others good. That’s how people survived for centuries. Using biases and default mode reflexes. If something threatens your life, pick one; fight or flight. But if it’s good for you, cherish it, nourish it, protect it. This formula works in nature; any creature can survive long enough with attention, care, and luck.
What happens when we are faced with unknowns? Extraterrestrials? How can we be sure whether they will hurt earthlings? Are they really evil in our perspective? When do we decide to fight or flight? If we change our scope from earth to cosmic unknown, a deeper uncertainty comes with it. We can’t know what will happen until we meet them. Also, we can’t trust our earthy biases and predictions. Los Angeles-based artist Aryo Toh Djojo dreams about UFOs and opposes mass media’s twisted UFO prophecies while facing LA’s oversaturated culture.
Aryo Toh Djojo’s Transmission Through Belief Systems to Cosmic Life
Aryo Toh Djojo -ahr-ee-oh toe-jo-yoh- was born and raised in Los Angeles and started to feed his curiosity crave about Ufology at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. His investigation about unidentified flying objects leads him to realize people’s beliefs and how these beliefs change the origin story of unknown beings. Upon further research, Toh Djojo is fascinated by the world’s biggest religions and belief systems affected by extraterrestrial beings such as Buddhism and Christianity. He explains that in his solo debut exhibition Transmission at Wilding Cran Gallery in January.
He doesn’t consider himself a Buddhist but meditates and reads many Buddhist teachings. Meanwhile, he experienced DMT in September of 2019. He states those practices took him to another dimension and woke him up. From that point, he’d like to believe it was a higher entity, but still, no one can be 100% sure about it.
His lifestyle and artistic direction changed altogether when his extraordinary journey met with the quarantine and restrictions of COVID-19. As a lifelong skateboarder, Aryo Toh Djojo was heavily influenced by skateboarding magazines and street culture, so he had to unlearn his style and build a path to himself.
He begins painting Southern California scenery infused with cosmic mysteries. His paintings create an illusion of analog photography merged with collages. Nonetheless, when the eyes dug deep into his art, a dreamy airbrushed acrylic exposes its true form. Los Angeles’ car culture, commercial spots, influencer & celebrity fetishes, and expensive, materialistic daily routines clash with Aryo Toh Djojo’s curiosity to unknowns. Every artwork has flashing lights or UFOs hid behind Los Angeles’ stereotypical sceneries.
What if UFOs are just cargo ships? What if they are not a threat to humanity? What if we are just scared of the unknown and uncertain? What if they are coming here in peace, but we are too scared to communicate and understand each other? Will we have a will to choose something other than fight or flight?
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Aryo Toh Djojo: Lost in Space While Observing LA’s Glamorous Culture
Universe has many secrets never heard by anyone, many unsolved riddles without hints, many premises not proved yet. However, humanity invests in countless assumptions to put their life in order. Some things are always bad and others good. That’s how people survived for centuries. Using biases and default mode reflexes. If something threatens your life, pick one; fight or flight. But if it’s good for you, cherish it, nourish it, protect it. This formula works in nature; any creature can survive long enough with attention, care, and luck.
What happens when we are faced with unknowns? Extraterrestrials? How can we be sure whether they will hurt earthlings? Are they really evil in our perspective? When do we decide to fight or flight? If we change our scope from earth to cosmic unknown, a deeper uncertainty comes with it. We can’t know what will happen until we meet them. Also, we can’t trust our earthy biases and predictions. Los Angeles-based artist Aryo Toh Djojo dreams about UFOs and opposes mass media’s twisted UFO prophecies while facing LA’s oversaturated culture.
Aryo Toh Djojo’s Transmission Through Belief Systems to Cosmic Life
Aryo Toh Djojo -ahr-ee-oh toe-jo-yoh- was born and raised in Los Angeles and started to feed his curiosity crave about Ufology at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. His investigation about unidentified flying objects leads him to realize people’s beliefs and how these beliefs change the origin story of unknown beings. Upon further research, Toh Djojo is fascinated by the world’s biggest religions and belief systems affected by extraterrestrial beings such as Buddhism and Christianity. He explains that in his solo debut exhibition Transmission at Wilding Cran Gallery in January.
He doesn’t consider himself a Buddhist but meditates and reads many Buddhist teachings. Meanwhile, he experienced DMT in September of 2019. He states those practices took him to another dimension and woke him up. From that point, he’d like to believe it was a higher entity, but still, no one can be 100% sure about it.
Quarantine, Isolation, and Creating a News Path
His lifestyle and artistic direction changed altogether when his extraordinary journey met with the quarantine and restrictions of COVID-19. As a lifelong skateboarder, Aryo Toh Djojo was heavily influenced by skateboarding magazines and street culture, so he had to unlearn his style and build a path to himself.
He begins painting Southern California scenery infused with cosmic mysteries. His paintings create an illusion of analog photography merged with collages. Nonetheless, when the eyes dug deep into his art, a dreamy airbrushed acrylic exposes its true form. Los Angeles’ car culture, commercial spots, influencer & celebrity fetishes, and expensive, materialistic daily routines clash with Aryo Toh Djojo’s curiosity to unknowns. Every artwork has flashing lights or UFOs hid behind Los Angeles’ stereotypical sceneries.
What if UFOs are just cargo ships? What if they are not a threat to humanity? What if we are just scared of the unknown and uncertain? What if they are coming here in peace, but we are too scared to communicate and understand each other? Will we have a will to choose something other than fight or flight?
You can follow Aryo Toh Djojo on Instagram and learn more about his solo debut Transmission at Wilding Cran.
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