timing...

A glance exchanged with a passerby among the stacks at The Strand, lending that gorgeous girl your umbrella for the opportunity to graze her hand, the closing subway doors marking the chance you had and the chance you missed to say 'hello'...

Sophie Blackall, Brooklyn based artist, has mined that bittersweet corner of Craigslists' Missed Connections to create an illustrated opus to love, lost and found.  Her work is as ephemeral, quirky, and vibrant as those moments that slipped through all those strangers hands...the joy of it all?  That whether those missed connections were found, they're given a second chance at life through Blackall's poetic imagination, and her stunner of a book.