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An illustration of a person in a red polka-dot dress, holding a blue and white bag wrapped in orange octopus tentacles. Behind them, another person carries a large fish. Handwritten text at the top reads “Dark skinned well spoken lady” followed by a message about seafood purchases at a grocery store.
An illustration of a person in a red polka-dot dress, holding a blue and white bag wrapped in orange octopus tentacles. Behind them, another person carries a large fish. Handwritten text at the top reads “Dark skinned well spoken lady” followed by a message about seafood purchases at a grocery store.

Sarah Blackall

Words
Alex Moshakis
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Date
17 August 2011

Our poor hearts are delicate little things, consumed, more often than not, by hope. Proof lies in Craigslist Missed Connections pages – digital message boards heaving with missed opportunity and consequential longing. New York-based illustrator Sarah Blackall has spent the last few years delicately rendering these fleeting love stories in Chinese ink and watercolour, and the results now exist in book form – proof that love, or at least the hope it provides, still exists.

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Alex Moshakis

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Alex originally joined It’s Nice That as a designer but moved into editorial and oversaw the It’s Nice That magazine from Issue Six (July 2011) to Issue Eight (March 2012) before moving on that summer.

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