OFF COURSE. ON PURPOSE.
Find clarity in your life, your work, and the space around you.
I'm Jolene Dames, an artist, visual storyteller, and guide who helps people notice what may be hiding in plain sight.
If something feels off, it probably is.
WORK WITH ME
My work lives where aesthetics and awareness meet™. Whether you feel stuck in your life, your creative work, or your environment, I help you understand what is no longer working, and what to do next. My Orientation Sessions draw on feng shui, design psychology, and 25 years of reading spaces for film, television, and theater.
Inner Compass—You and your direction. Start here.
Read the Room—One space, read and interpreted.
Room Recalibration—One space, a live walkthrough, and a plan.
I notice what other people miss.
I spent decades behind the scenes in film and television, Painting and designing environments that shaped emotion and behavior before audiences consciously noticed them. Every detail served the story. Now I use that same eye to help people understand their lives, work, and surroundings more clearly.
Space as mirror. Story as compass. Self as home.
READ THE STORIES OF SKEWED NORTH
Want to know how I went from Skewed North to True North?
If you love a good story as much as I do, join me at Skewed North, where I pull back the curtain on the stories that shaped this work: movie sets and memoir pages, art, grief, rebuilding, and the long way back to myself.
MADE BY DAMES
Art you can live with: original work, Skewed North souvenirs, and pieces made just for you.
You do not need to have it all figured out.
You only need to recognize that something needs reorienting.