There's something about living in an urban environment. I miss the overwhelming population, what seemed to be an unlimited amount of bus numbers, a rainbow of train colors: pink to get there; purple to head up north; brown, west; the small, isolated "secret" parks and patches of greenery. Most of all, I miss the anonymity of being in the city. When all you are is a face in the crowd. Only when you bother to look and actually see across your train compartment or break your routine to look up from your book and realize that someone's been studying your face since they boarded the same bus does your world get an interruption: perhaps a reminder that there are always people to share life with. All you have to do is to reach out. But artist Sophie Blackwell, in her series, Missed Connections, celebrates the temporal and fragile nature of such urban interactions. "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," Blackwell writes in her blog. Here are a few more of those Missed Connections:
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New York-inspired art has never looked so sweet!
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