Sophie Blackall: Missed Connections
Thursday, December 31, 2009
- m4w – 32
You had on a furry hat with ear flaps and you crashed into me at Wollman Rink today. You are a terrible but adorable skater.
Happy New Year!
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day coming up this Sunday (hatch your plans now!), I thought I’d direct you to illustrator Sophie Blackall’s charmingly conceived, adorably rendered Missed Connections . Ms. Blackall scours NYC’s Missed Connections website and deftly illustrates the messages that catch her fancy.
She says it better: “Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I’m trying to pin a few of them down.”
Posted: February 10th, 2010 under artists.
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