It’s a crisp Tuesday morning in 2012. I’m running late for the third day of fourth grade because I slept in again and ignored all my mom’s yells to “Wake up!” from the bottom of the stairs.

Long-told is the complicated affair between the artist and the muse, grotesquely entwined with longing, lust, power, and a myriad of discourses debating its significance to the human relationship.