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Yet the concept of fakeness feels murky here.

A reflection of Richter’s lifelong penchant for technical experimentation, they are in fact inkjet prints of the drawings, so accurate their fakeness is impossible for most of us to discern.

Still, she brings the reader into her burgeoning insight: “Because if hiding behind every potential interaction, relationship, or group is some feared ‘fakeness’ no one can pinpoint, then we’re all just running scared from the very thing that might help us understand ourselves.

“In the beginning, I thought there was a fakeness for writing for the character in a way, so that’s why my early records especially are very personal and very somber. … It was during a time when I was trying to prove my musicianship, so I thought that if I didn’t make serious-sounding music, no one would take me seriously,” she said.

There have been lots of critiques around it, not just in academia, but in popular culture, around the fakeness of it — that it uses non-models that look incredibly like models, or techniques like Photoshop or filters.