Williamson & Heti @ Paradise Theatre - Toronto

 



…..author, Sheila Heti and artist Margaux Williamson in conversation @ Paradise Theatre.

The stage was set last night for a sell out audience to hear the ramblings, ravings and insights into a 20 year friendship  and collaboration that has been integral to their respective work as author and artist. It was a night of revelation and background stories and personal revelations of how to be ‘creative’ either siting up in bed with a computer of sitting in a studio setting out the text for the next painting. 

It was a conversation that went behind the books and the paintings and reflected an evolving interest and passion in the other’s creativity and response to the world around them. Heti and Margaux both view the works as only part of their creative story  and both remain incredulous that someone has either read the book or admired the painting. Their relationship was captured in Heti’s recent novel, ‘How should a person be’ in which the two man in characters are Heti and Margaux are themselves. 

Williamson’s simplistic and domestic  paintings at the MOCA including a commissioned work that responded to the building’s concrete and pylon structure  inspired us to go to the conversation to hear more about her work and that of her friend. The conversation made us none the wiser about the creative process or the works them selves. 

But the friendship is endearing and certainly one that has its moments of refection and inspires each to think about what can be achieved in other pursuits in the future. It is highly probable that Heti will soon be a painter yet and Margaux a writer such is the bonding that has survived for over 20 years!