For more than 25 years, I’ve been paid to paint things that don’t exist. Cities that were never built. Wood that’s actually marble. Entire worlds designed to make you believe you are somewhere else. No wonder I got so good at living in worlds that weren’t mine.
Then life knocked me off course, and I started paying attention to the real ones.
New here? Start with these.
💔 Invisible Was Safer — I learned to disappear before I ever learned how to be seen. Where the split began, and where it led.
🎬 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 and why I don’t follow maps, I make them.
The Four Doors
Because I love a good adventure, there are four main ways into the world of Skewed North.
1. The Essays
Stories from film sets, far-flung places, love, loss, grief, art, beauty, and the very inconvenient business of becoming yourself. Some 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.
2. The Visual Work
Paintings. Photography. Objects. Assemblages. 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.
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.
3. The Atlas
The deeper, private layer of Skewed North. If the public essays are the road, The Atlas is the private journal.
Paid subscribers get:
Behind the Work — Notes from the studio, the road, and the writing of my memoir.
Audio + Field Notes — Voice notes, readings, and occasional dispatches from wherever I happen to be.
Deleted Scenes — Memoir fragments, journal pages, and photographs. The story underneath the story.
4. Orientation Sessions
Everything I write is about being off course. This is the part where I help you with yours.
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. Most people already know something is wrong. What they don’t have is language for it, or a sense of which thing to deal with first.
That’s what I’m good at. I read patterns — in people, in spaces, in the way the two shape each other.
Inner Compass is the 90-minute session for when your direction is unclear. Read the Room and Room Recalibration are for when it’s the space. Studio Sessions are for getting back into making.