ABOUT SLTCo.

HEADER: THE TRADING POST & MANIFESTO

THE REALITY STUDIO IS LEAKING: The modern signal is jammed. The system feeds on slick, corporate noise—a control mechanism designed to sell you a life you didn’t ask for. 

This is the Shangri-La Trading Company. My workshop. My Interzone.

THE OUTSIDER GENERALIST: They push specialization—a tidy, miserable box. Smash the box. I reject the standard issue. I am a phantom in the greasy, beautiful trades. I scavenge the wreckage of the 20th century—from the physical craft of kustom culture to the visual syntax of film noir—and splice it into the digital feed.

THE FISSURE: The digital state is a "soft machine"—discrete, sterile, and controlling. It fails at the periphery. It cannot replicate the infinite, chaotic grace of the Analog Soul.

My work is located precisely at that slippage: the moment the technical control ends and the human error begins. I seek only to construct an existence I can stand living in—a human-centric aesthetic bubble that smells like rust, whisky, and possibility.

TENETS OF OPERATION

• Cut the Word Lines: Disassemble the narrative. Reassemble the truth.

• Reality is Augmented: Surgical precision meets the imperfect, human signal.

• Repair Culture: We fix what they tell you to throw away.

• Weight & History: We build props and media with mass. If you can't feel the weight of it, it's just a ghost.

THE OBJECTIVE: Through Shangri-La Trading Co., I strive to construct immersive, impactful, alternate realities. The film loop is broken. The operation continues...