painting, what is practice?

To term it practice is to continue until you know how to do something. When do you know a painting? Perhaps its when the time spent feels enough, or when you are tired of it, for now.

I am getting to know these paintings. Repetitively. Like good friends that come for a cup of tea but end up staying for dinner. I work with them, on them, in them. I'm here, present and so are they. We hold the silence of the night together as the washes of pigment flow. And when it's too much for them I bind their burdens with lines and shapes to enclose their weaknesses. It enclose my weaknesses, when the chaos is too much.