In the late 1990s, Toronto artist Ian Phillips turned the lost pet posters he'd begun collecting from signposts around the city into handmade zines. 15 years ago, he combined these and others from around the world into a book,
Lost, which is being reissued by Princeton Architectural Press this month.
"They're like love letters," says Phillips of the posters' appeal. More than that, they offer insight into the human psyche.
The Guardian writes:
Naturally, owners tend to want their beloved pets back in one piece, though one rabbit in France, interestingly, would have been taken back “vivant ou mort” (alive or dead). Phillips was contacted by one couple who’d sent him their poster and then found their cat, dead. “I think they were relieved to know what had happened. When someone loses their pet and never finds out where it went, that’s something they’re going to think about for a long, long time.”
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Source: The Guardian.