A geek graffiti-inspired project, Love Train takes found items, virtual and literal, mashes them, and returns them to the public space.

Vintage romance novel book covers and text from Craigslist Missed Connections come together as a recontxtualizing of the classic romance lit genre. In the form of stickers, these mash-ups are then reintroduced to the public by the public, in subway cars--not incidentally the site of many of these "missed connections."

Neither the cover art or the missed connection posts are edited in any way, beyond my initial selection of a) which post "goes" with which cover art and b) the length of the text from the post. These are the private words of the people, that vast army of lonely strangers hiding their intense longing behind iPods and laptops, publically proclaimed.