In her blog Missed Connections, Brooklyn artist Sophie Blackall writes:
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.
What a wonderful idea for this series of witty illustrations. Having a rather unhealthy obsession with Missed Connections myself, I love Sophie Blackall's tender appreciation of the humor and the fragile humanity and behind these anonymous love letters.
