What Do You See When You Look at This Bridge?

What Do You See When You Look at This Bridge? A Real Painter Sits on Sheila Heti's Fictional Couchby Sheila HetiTony's apartment is undecorated and spare. He owns little, feeling that life is fundamentally unstable. He hasn't had a serious relationship in the half decade since leaving university, though he dates. He is an artist whose canvases are full of nightmarish scenarios: mutilation, murder, the fallout of atomic war. He was training to be a biologist, which was his parents' dream for him,