Joe Goode

I remember talking with Joe Goode, the painter, a few years ago now, about how an artist has to continually confront himself about himself, that some very important part of art is essentially a continuous investigation of the self and so on and so on, that I was, or had been, in therapy and in a men's group etc. etc.

And Joe said, " I know about as much about myself as I want to know."

Then he smiled.

No, he didn't smile. That I say Joe smiled isn't true. I wanted him to smile, he smiled in my memory as he said what he said. I remember what he said, the words are still clear, I remember now that he didn't smile.

I've added the smile as a gesture to make myself feel better about what Joe said.