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A map for the off-course, the rebuilding, the grieving, the searching, and the ones learning to trust a direction they cannot yet explain.
Behind the scenes of film, across 38 countries, through love, loss, detours, epiphanies, and starting over — this is how I learned to navigate with no map.
For when something feels off, and you can’t explain why.
For when the life you built no longer fits.
For when the road disappears, the compass spins, and the thing that doesn’t make sense yet is somehow the only thing pulling you forward.
That is Skewed North.
I spent 25 years painting for film, building worlds that looked real enough for other people’s stories. I chased work, love, countries, adventures, signs, wrong turns, strange rooms, impossible beauty, and the kind of moments that only make sense later.
No training. No roadmap. Just one yes that turned into a whole life.
Then life knocked me off course in the way life sometimes does.
Love. Loss. Grief. Starting over. Again. And again.
For a long time, I thought being off course meant I had failed.
Now I think some of us find our real direction there.
Skewed North is where I write and make from that place.
It is a body of work about finding your way after life knocks you off course — through story, image, space, and perception.
It is memoir, but not only memoir.
It is art, but not only art.
It is about grief, but not only grief.
It is about the strange way we survive disorientation and reorient toward a life that feels true.
Off course, on purpose.
Hop in the sidecar.
We ride at dawn.
The Four Doors
Because I love a good adventure, there are four main ways into the world of Skewed North.
1. The Essays
The Essays are the written backbone of Skewed North.
This is where I share stories from film sets, far-flung places, love, loss, grief, art, beauty, and the very inconvenient business of becoming yourself.
Some essays are memoir fragments. Some are field notes. Some are about the moment everything changed. Some are about the smaller moments that turned out to be maps.
I write about what happens when the script falls apart, and you have to start living your own life.
Read these if you are drawn to stories about survival, memory, place, beauty, heartbreak, rebuilding, and the strange signs that show up when you are paying attention.
2. The Visual Work
The Visual Work is the image side of Skewed North.
Paintings. Photography. Objects. Assemblages. Visual artifacts. Studio notes. The pieces that come from the same place as the writing.
I spent years painting worlds for film. Now I am making my own.
The images are not separate from the stories. They are part of the same map.
A photograph can hold a place I couldn’t stay. A painting can hold a feeling I didn’t have words for. An object can become proof that something was survived.
This is where story becomes visible.
3. The Atlas
The Atlas is the deeper, private layer of Skewed North.
It is for paid subscribers who want to come closer to the raw material — the unfinished edges, the behind-the-scenes process, the memoir fragments, the studio notes, the private journal pieces, the audio stories, the visual process, and the work behind the work.
If the public essays are the road, The Atlas is the private journal.
This is where I share more of what is still becoming.
Paid subscribers help support the writing, the visual work, the books, the studio practice, and the larger Skewed North world as it takes shape.
4. Creative Compass Sessions
Creative Compass Sessions are the consulting side of this work.
They are for artists, creatives, seekers, and people in transition who need help seeing the shape of what they are building.
Sometimes the thing that feels off is a project. Sometimes it is a room. Sometimes it is a business, a body of work, an identity, or a life that no longer fits.
I have always been good at reading what is underneath — in spaces, stories, images, and people — and helping others find their way.
Creative Compass Sessions are where that becomes practical: a private session to help you see the shape of what is trying to come into form.
For now, you can direct message me to book.
Why Skewed North
North is supposed to mean direction.
But my life has rarely moved in a straight line.
The biggest moments did not come from plans.
They came from the wrong turn, the strange yes, the thing that made no sense, the room I entered by accident, the country I followed someone to, the job I did not know would become a career, the grief I did not know how to survive, the beauty that found me anyway.
I don’t follow maps.
I make them.
Skewed North is for the off-course ones.
The ones rebuilding.
The ones grieving.
The ones making beauty from the wreckage.
The ones who feel something pulling them but do not have language for it yet.
The ones learning to trust the direction that looks strange from the outside but feels true from the inside.
This is how I learned to navigate with no map.
This is where I keep going.
Welcome to Skewed North.
Off course, on purpose.
Keep Reading:
🎬 No Training. No Roadmap. Just One Yes.
How I accidentally built a 25-year career in movies
🌍 We Quit the Script and Started Living Our Own Life.
How we left the expected path, followed the work, and built a life across countries.
💔 Five Months Later, He Was Gone.
What happened when life stopped following the script
🔥 I Don’t Follow Maps. I Make Them.
What came after everything fell apart, and how I began finding my way again.
Some of this is shared openly.
The deeper parts—the ones that changed me—
live underneath.
Off course, on purpose.
Hop in the sidecar.
We ride at dawn.