Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren has been wearing a striped T-shirt everyday since 2001 and started asking people to curate his daily garment, choosing from a collection that currently numbers more than one thousand.
http://instagram.com/jacob_dahlgren
Amy and I decided not to choose from the archive, but gave Jacob a white T-shirt and a bunch of colored Sharpies, along with the following set of rules:
”Familiar stranger” is a social phenomena coined by Stanley Milgram in regards to people we regularly encounter, but do not interact with. We have relationships with familiar strangers in a mutual agreement to ignore each other without intentions of hostility. I see you most days when I walk my dog. If you fail to appear, I notice.