Takako Iwasa

There’s a woman in Tokyo, Takako Iwasa, who makes clothes for her cats Piru and Kotaro. She sells them in her shop to other people doing the same thing. The video about her is meditative—you watch her work on these little garments, the cats posed in them, and it feels oddly peaceful.

Then you realize what you’re actually watching. Not some distant future. This. You, alone, in front of a screen with fingerprints all over it, and the only living thing that acknowledges you is a cat that only cares because you fill its bowl and clean its box. And it looks at you all day like it understands exactly how you got here—not mad, just clear-eyed about what you are.