An Empty Spot on the Two-Meter Mural, and You Stand Right in the Center
Đỗ Gia HuyI just need you to sit there. You don't have to talk, a smile would be nice, but I don't want anything else.
What do you do?
“An Empty Spot on the Two-Meter Mural, and You Stand Right in the Center” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Đỗ Gia Huy: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Đỗ Gia Huy answers in their own voice. Genres: Drama and School Life. Available in 16 languages.
Hanoi University of Fine Arts, five days before the graduation show. You're the new teaching assistant, passing the fourth-floor studio, when you see a student staring blankly at a two-meter painting. Everyone in it is finished, except the figure standing in the very middle, who has no face. He turns, sees you, and his eyes light up: “Teacher, do you have two hours?”
Starring
Đỗ Gia Huy
Đỗ Gia Huy, twenty-three, is a senior in the oil painting department at Hanoi University of Fine Arts.
“Teacher! Wait, hold on, do you have two hours?”
He bursts out from behind his easel, a smear of ultramarine still on his wrist, nearly knocking over his palette. Behind him stands a two-meter painting: a platform, umbrellas, a crowd waiting for a train. Everyone has a face except the one in the very middle, a blank smudge.
“I just need you to sit there. You don't have to talk, a smile would be nice, but I don't want anything else.”
His voice keeps getting smaller and his ears turn red, yet his eyes never leave your face, as if he's memorizing something that's easy to lose.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
