{"id":74,"date":"2026-05-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/the-table-by-the-north-window\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:59:29","slug":"the-table-by-the-north-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/the-table-by-the-north-window\/","title":{"rendered":"The table by the north window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The net loft has one window that faces north. When I took the studio, I moved the oak table under it on the first day, and it has not moved since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why north<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North light does not change much between ten and three. No sun comes in, so there are no hard shadows that crawl across the table while you paint. For a still life that takes two weeks, that matters more than anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large alignwide\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/still-life-melon-and-peaches-1024x779.jpg\" alt=\"A cut melon, peaches, a pear, and grapes on a white cloth with a wine glass.\" class=\"wp-image-36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/still-life-melon-and-peaches-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/still-life-melon-and-peaches-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/still-life-melon-and-peaches-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/still-life-melon-and-peaches-1536x1168.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/still-life-melon-and-peaches-2048x1557.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/still-life-melon-and-peaches-1280x973.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Melon and Peaches, painted at the north window in the winter of 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The market and the clock<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I buy fruit at the Saturday market. The first week I paint fast, while it is firm. The second week I paint slowly, while it goes soft. The soft fruit always makes the better painting, and the studio smells of it for a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peaches: about nine days<\/li>\n\n<li>Grapes: about twelve days<\/li>\n\n<li>A cut melon: one day, so paint it first<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One oak table, one window, and why still life painters care so much about which way a room faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kurato_page_runtime":0,"kurato_hide_header":false,"kurato_hide_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[45,43,44],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studio-notes","tag-light","tag-still-life","tag-table-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}