Old Lock Mechanism

Would you guess what this is? It is an impressive lock mechanism (from the 16th century) of a big metal box I found in the Citadel of Dinant, Belgium. I really love the shapes, textures and symbols... I took this photo last summer and forgot to share it (I made some edits to improve the details, colors, composition, click to enlarge...). View some of my other photos taken in Belgium.

© 2013 Ben Heine

Pencil Vs Camera - 67

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(See it on deviantART)

The beauty and the prisoner... doomed to disappear sooner or later because unable to really express their feeling. I took this photo in Brussels not so lond ago and made the sketch as usual. The composition may look a bit tricky and unusual, because the model was actually standing in front of a large mirror… Model: Coralie Nelly. You can also view the drawing in progress at this link...

© 2012 - Ben Heine

Give Me Freedom
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© 2009 - Ben Heine

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Dancing His
Way to Peace

A poem by Peter S. Quinn

I will dance like a white dove toward peace
With my both wings set to the sky from here
The motion of my movements set and frees
So I will glow like a ray in astrosphere
I have filled my moments here on this earth
With every aspect of its sensual shade
Now I'm gaining more power in my rebirth
With flowing that the breeze balladeer arrayed

With songs of true peace there's harmonious air
Through the heavens of the moments arriving
We shall fill very quarter of its flair
Before again to tomorrow diving
Both my wings of new freedom shall chains break
And dawn of opportunities awake
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Kind gift for me from
"Barcoded Maggot"

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© 2008 BarcodedMaggot

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This is a graphic tribute
from "Barcoded Maggot".
Thanks a lot, I really like all
these symbols and soft colours.
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By the way, I strongly recommend
Barcoded Maggot's artistic and political work

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Selected Cartoon (Toonpool.com)
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Rubik's Cube

The Olympic Games in China are a Rubik's Cube, in the opinion of Ben Heine from Brussels. The five rings, symbolising the five continents with their colours and thereby all national flags, can be recomposed in Ben Heine’s cartoon. The result of this is not always pleasing: red, red, red, blue, yellow, black, black as a crow ...

The twisted rings form an endless chain. Moreover, nobody is able to burst these fetters. Ben Heine is a famous cartoon artist who combines newspaper articles, poems and symbols into an up to date political statement. Just like another great artists from Belgium, René Magritte, he is thereby shaking up the conventional ways of thinking and perceptions. Here it is the Rubik’s Cube that the Chinese dislocate in whatever way they see fit. (toonpool.com 05/08)