"Missed Connections" Translated into Visual Poetry Etsy Find

"Missed Connections" Translated into Visual Poetry
Etsy Find

Living in a dense, urban environment brings us closer to other people than we sometimes want to be. But there are those instances when a serendipitous connection was right there, within arms reach, just missed because we didn't look up. Brooklyn-Australian artist, Sophie Blackall, is translating these haiku-like scenes into lovely prints...

We love the everyday romanticism embodied in these simple prose — quiet longings typed out and cast off into the abyss of the internet like a digital message in a bottle. And we seriously dig the concept of adapting them into illustration. These prints are a lovely representation of modern-day, albeit digital, romance.

From the artist: "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."

Prints are available on Sophie's Etsy site and more paintings can be viewed on her Missed Connections blog.

Comments (13)

The art is very neat

I like missed connections if only for the fact they're written passages of humanity's most pathetic, passive aggressive moments

posted by Futurovox on September 11th 2009 at 8:05pm
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I"m pretty sure there is a book with this same concept illustrated by a collective of comic artists... I can't even begin to remember its name, though.

posted by sholt on September 11th 2009 at 8:40pm
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These are nice and remind me of Maira Kalman's work.

posted by mirandabee on September 11th 2009 at 8:40pm
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beautiful! i love these and the illustrations are splendid :)

posted by nikki moore - photography and vintage treasures on September 11th 2009 at 10:52pm
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They're different. That first one reminds me of Ghostworld, Seymour at that "authentic" 50s diner with his milkshake all alone.

posted by HeyNowTex on September 12th 2009 at 1:48am
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sublime melancholy
very sweet
lovely

posted by tredeger on September 12th 2009 at 2:05am
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These are beautifully illustrated. Love em'.

posted by suzy8track on September 12th 2009 at 9:33am
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Do you mean Haiku? As in the type of poetry? Hiku essentially means to drag or to pull from what I've read.

posted by CFYG on September 12th 2009 at 9:46am
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Sorry about the spelling error - good catch, now fixed :-)

posted by Wesfs33 on September 12th 2009 at 11:46am
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I'm obsessed now. I want them ALL. (I want to know the story behind the bird one!)

posted by ridge_van_winkle on September 12th 2009 at 1:59pm
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