Str4ngeThing is an anonymous AI artist with a background in photography and fashion, whose work merges Renaissance aesthetics with contemporary streetwear and fashion culture. Central to the work is the Mandela Effect, the phenomenon of shared false memories, which Str4ngeThing uses as a premise to imagine familiar brands and clothing styles as though they had always existed, folded into Renaissance-era paintings.
The series RO4DM3N & H0RS3S ran online via Fellowship's Daily platform from February 10 to March 10, 2023, imagining street-fashion icons riding horses in a world without cars, nodding to a Black cultural Renaissance that blends climate-forward ideals with high fashion and streetwear. It built on the artist's main collection, WR0ng Er4, which reimagines Renaissance paintings as though logos and clothing from brands such as Nike and Coca-Cola had always been part of the culture, framed as fair-use celebration rather than imitation. One piece from the series, TH3 B00TL3GER, depicts a bootlegger in Renaissance Italy selling counterfeit sneakers from a repurposed Coca-Cola vending machine.
