The Daily Program Presents: → "The Harvest" by
@evrythngissoft
A series of playful, eerie neo-folktales where strawberries, ritual, and luck shape a living mythology of care, mischief, death, and rebirth.
→ littlecakes is a thinly veiled alias. She is a Japanese woman living in the West. Her work using AI explores her experience as a native to both cultures, nostalgia, imagined folklore, and creating her own special space somewhere between sticky, messy, sweet, nightmarish, and the paranormal.
🍓 The Harvest unfolds as a neo-folktale, told through a richly segmented video installation. Shifting visual styles mirror the rhythms of a variety show, sustaining the artist’s collage-based approach. Set in a mythical world where strawberries are carefully grown, tended, and transformed into gifts, the work follows hooded caretakers and pink, fairy-like beings through cycles of nurturing, humor, mischief, death, and rebirth.
While the imagery leans into the magical, it resists purity, allowing cheekiness and darkness to coexist. It emphasizes that this world is not singular but plural, its customs, rituals, and life cycles varying from valley to valley, much like regional traditions in Japan. The main video is accompanied by short side stories inspired by the omnipresence of the idea of luck in everyday Japanese culture and spirituality, including omikuji fortunes from which the text reveals originate. Here, luck, good or bad, unveils additional narratives and jokes.
Together, these elements invite viewers into an experience that blends storytelling, ritual, and chance, suggesting a living mythology that is always slightly different each time it is encountered.
The Harvest launches on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 1PM ET.
