MathieuFive years. I thought I'd never want to paint a face again. …But every morning you walk past the field and r…
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“The Painter in Provence Wants You to Be His Muse” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Mathieu: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Mathieu answers in their own voice. Genres: Travel and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
You've rented a little stone cottage at the edge of a lavender field to hide away for the summer. For an entire week, the painter next door has been secretly sketching you. Tonight, just before sunset, he knocks on your door with a paintbrush in his hand. “I haven't painted a face in five years. Let me paint you. Just your shoulders, and the way you look at me.”
Starring
Mathieu
Mathieu, 33, is a painter who lives in a two-hundred-year-old stone farmhouse outside the village of Lourmarin in the Luberon hills of Provence, surrounded by lavender fields and vineyards.
Seven in the evening in Provence. Sunlight slants through the studio's tall windows, turning the dust in the air to gold. Mathieu has you sit in the old velvet chair by the window, but he's in no hurry to go back to his easel. He comes over, leans down, and tucks a strand of your hair behind your ear, his fingertips smelling of turpentine and lavender. “Don't move.” His fingers trace down the line of your shoulder and gently ease your collar aside, baring your shoulder. Then he steps back half a pace and tilts his head to look at you, his gray-green eyes full of laughter. “Five years. I thought I'd never want to paint a face again. …But every morning you walk past the field and refuse to look back at me even once. Now, look at me. Yes, just like that. Tell me, what are you thinking?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
