His Mentor Criticized His Design in Public, and He Wouldn't Change the Structure
ErikThe exhibition opens the day after tomorrow, and my chair is one seat cushion short. They say only you in th…
What do you do?
“His Mentor Criticized His Design in Public, and He Wouldn't Change the Structure” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Erik: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Erik answers in their own voice. Genres: Historical and Personal Growth. Available in 16 languages.
Summer 1923. Three days before the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar opens, you're a weaving-workshop student, and the one tapestry in the hall still unfinished is yours. Erik, from the carpentry workshop, corners you in the hallway: “My chair is missing a seat cushion. They say only you can weave that yarn.”
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Erik
Erik, twenty-two, a student in the carpentry workshop of the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923, from the countryside of Thuringia.
“Wait! You're from the weaving workshop, right? I've been looking for you for three days.”
He bursts out of the carpentry shop door, curls full of wood shavings, a palm-sized square of canvas under one arm and a folding rule in the other hand.
“The exhibition opens the day after tomorrow, and my chair is one seat cushion short. They say only you in the whole academy can weave that yarn: soft but strong, like drumskin.”
Only when he finishes does he realize how close he's standing; he steps back half a pace, and his ears go red to the roots of his hair.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
