[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":75},["ShallowReactive",2],{"journal-why-i-paint-slowly":3,"journal-order":53},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":42,"date":43,"description":37,"excerpt":44,"extension":45,"fallbackImage":44,"image":46,"meta":47,"navigation":48,"path":49,"seo":50,"stem":51,"__hash__":52},"journal\u002Fjournal\u002Fwhy-i-paint-slowly.md","Why I paint slowly",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":36},"minimark",[9,16,20,23,26,33],[10,11,12],"eyebrow",{},[13,14,15],"p",{},"Studio · November 2025",[17,18,5],"h2",{"id":19},"why-i-paint-slowly",[13,21,22],{},"People ask why I make so few paintings. The honest answer is that I make as many as I can. The slower answer is that slowness is not a method I chose — it is a method the paintings chose for me, the first time I tried to finish one before it was ready and watched it die.",[13,24,25],{},"A painting made fast is a performance. A painting made slowly is an argument with time, and time is the only honest opponent a picture has. Oil paint dries from the outside in. A glaze laid today will not show its true colour for two weeks. To paint in oil is to conspire with a process that will not be hurried, and the painting that respects its own drying is the painting that lasts.",[27,28,30],"callout",{"type":29},"quote",[13,31,32],{},"We are drowning in images and starving for looking. A handful of paintings, made slowly and looked at often, are worth more than thousands scrolled past.",[13,34,35],{},"I keep, at any moment, four or five panels going, each at a different stage of wet. While one dries, I look at another. The studio is a slow rotation, a small clock of its own. Some panels take a year. One took three. I do not apologise for that. The price of a slow painting is that there are few of them, and the value of a slow painting is that there are few of them, and those two facts are the same fact.",{"title":37,"searchDepth":38,"depth":38,"links":39},"",3,[40],{"id":19,"depth":41,"text":5},2,"Studio","2025-11-22",null,"md","\u002Fimages\u002Fjournal\u002Fwhy-i-paint-slowly.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fjournal\u002Fwhy-i-paint-slowly",{"title":5,"description":37},"journal\u002Fwhy-i-paint-slowly","5MMUEaajIcv7B6pmoKHcbGxYjQ17vWVihseRgawn0LA",[54,58,62,66,70,74],{"path":55,"title":56,"date":57},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fa-morning-at-the-uffizi","A morning at the Uffizi","2026-03-09",{"path":59,"title":60,"date":61},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fgold-leaf-and-patience","Gold leaf, and the patience it demands","2026-05-18",{"path":63,"title":64,"date":65},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fon-finishing-a-painting","On finishing a painting","2026-08-12",{"path":67,"title":68,"date":69},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fthe-first-and-second-thing","The first thing and the second thing","2025-09-04",{"path":71,"title":72,"date":73},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fthe-loupe-and-what-it-asks","The loupe, and what it asks of you","2026-07-02",{"path":49,"title":5,"date":43},1787607221930]