From 'Missed Connection' to art -- photos

Brooklyn illustrator has found inspiration in the "Missed Connections" ads on Craigslist and other sites, creating a series of original paintings based on those hopeful and humorous words.

"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 Web sites," she says. "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."

Here are a few paintings from her Missed Connections series, which will be released in book form in 2012.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

- m4w - 19 (Uptown 3 Train)

If not for your noisy Tambourine, I would not have seen you. Your green skirt looked terrible, but that leather jacket makes you look just right. I was the attractive guy sitting to your left just before you got off.