the names iAM…
Laura
Laura
/ LOR-uh / the SOLDier
Laura is the given name. Unchosen, yet accepted. The path was equally inherited: good grades for a good college for a good career in a good city. Straight and narrow and never questioned.
By 30, Laura was reigning in the Bay Area high-life on the coattails of the Silicon Valley boom. Every box checked. Every external signal flashing SUCCESS. Yet the lived experience was emptiness and extreme stress. Blinded by the six figure green light, Laura was a SOLD!ier of capitalism seeking a happiness that rarely and barely presented. And then, when she saw...
Laura ran...around the globe for two years weaving, worm-holing, unraveling and becoming...
elLA*
elLA*
/ eh-LAH / the seeker
elLA (*accent the LA) is the merged name and acronym for: energy light Love Aura. One name representing two: devotion to theONE energy from which all emerges, and the L(ove)AURA iAM. The reverse syllable accent is a tribute to the IAM, the vehicle that got me here, and reveals how I work: in reverse.
No religious, philosophical, scientific, or spiritual stone went unturned in deep global QUESTing. Living inQUERY, elLA often receives answers before the QUESTion is asked. AND& an answer unanchored from a question is useless. Both/and are necessary.
Through numbers, sacred geometry, and pattern recognition, elLA began to see the hidden architecture beneath reality. How do we apply?
eL
eL
/ el / the ARCHITECT
eL is the all chemical minimal form to organically emerge from Laura + elLA. A living synthesis attending both function and form through story + spaceTIME design. Built on a singular philosophy: to transform your world, transform your word. eL architects worlds through narrative, language, and sacred geometric system design.
In the beginning was the word. Word allowed story. Story allowed communication. Communication allowed coordination. Coordination allowed civilization.And onwards, words built every world.
Only when human systems mirror nature may we live in sustainable harmony. Architecting living systems, spaces, brands, and communities aligned with nature’s mathematics is theONE aim.
Szu-Tu
Szu-Tu
/ ZOO-too / the EXILE
Szu-Tu is the family name that lives beyond just me. A name of Chinese royal lineage loosely translated as: “ministry of the masses.”
Two generations ago, the Szu-Tu family escaped Japanese-occupied Shanghai and later fled the Communist revolution by walking a distance greater than the Great Wall itself to become American refugees. Safety in the run. Survival in the shapeshifting.
Szu-Tu carries the epigenetic memory that when traced back far enough, we discover theONE truth in our shared first homo sapien parents. We are not separate. The same genes divided and merged across thousands of years convinced us otherwise. Do you see? re:MEMBER.
008ink
008ink
/ double-OH-eight-INK / theONE story
008ink exists to ink theONE story in & over time. A living social experiment asking one real QUESTion: How much of life could be supported through trUSt and goodwill alone?
A cooperative for the people AND& by the people. Built on the belief that no one was ever meant to go it alone. Through freewill gifting of time, skill, and care become currency. We offer where we can. We ask when we need. We stay in relation when we want to run.
008ink's mission is to build a minimal viable community rooted in trUSt and system design in rhythm with nature's numbers. Trust cannot be created, only cultivated. One person, one word, one act in and over time...
In hu(e)mans, we trust. Welcome hOMe.