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BenHeine — Remembering what I am
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NEW: Prints of this artwork now available!
That was another time consuming project... I applied each circle individually on a black background.
I made a quick preparatory sketch first (you can see it in the "making of" below).
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For more information about my works: info@benheine.com
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Work in progress:
More Circlism:
Touch My Outside Skin
By Peter S. Quinn
Touch my outside skin
Trying to reach the bone
I'm everything within
Structured by my tone
Nothing much of difference
From someone like you
Give me and my ways a chance
Make my life come thru
Like a day that’s going by
So is everything going
Flying low and flying high
Inside each track showing
Answers coming to reward
Within days new choice
That we know will start
To surrender its rejoice
Playful rumors in the way
Much for nothing saying
Every hour through the day
Thoughts of each weighing
Voices of long gone past
Trying to come out again
Through the hours lost
Everything so simply plain
Touch my outside skin
Trying to reach the bone
I'm everything within
Structured by my tone
Nothing much of difference
From someone like you
Give me and my ways a chance
Make my life come thru
What we still remember
Somewhere lying around
Like some shades of September
A step and step there found
Broken bones to reach
Cloths of touching mood
Thoughts in their bleach
To a subconscious intrude
Flesh of money openness
All is for the nothing
Sweetness in their caress
Still in ways bluffing
You and I for anything
From that still undecided
Like the clouds of far bring
Halfway thru and guided
Touch my outside skin
Trying to reach the bone
I'm everything within
Structured by my tone
Nothing much of difference
From someone like you
Give me and my ways a chance
Make my life come thru
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Comments: 45
I had never heard of circlism before seeing you're work- it's a very interesting style. I like the duality to this picture, and the interesting concept behind it- good job!
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Wow! Living in Australia, I have been exposed to (& admired very much) the cultural art of the indigenous Aborigines known locally as 'dot' painting - I don't know the 'official' name for it. The Aboriginal artist uses bright & earthy colours to convey images/stories of nature, the elements & spiritual beings. Very beautiful.
From my perspective, your 'circle' art would fall into the same genre BUT at the other extreme. The main difference is the precision/sharpness that you employ in creating your images - it pretty well screams at the viewer! This is not meant as criticism (unless, of course, it was NOT your intention), it is my impression and applause of your artistic skills. Very beautiful.
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you're ugly
lame subject
just stopping by to be a jerk
why not?
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this wasnt meant for you or this artwork
sorry wrong page
PLEASE DELETE
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Why should this be meant for anybody? If you don't have something nice to say then don't freaking say it at all. No matter how much you may hate someone, the stuff you say hurts, so even if your previous message wasn't meant for this work, it was still incredibly immature.
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Alles SUPER-Ideen und technisch perfekt umgesetzt.
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het is gewoon weg fantastisch k'wou dat ik dat ook kon
dikke proficiat
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Nothing to do with me and not a copy of what you are doing but this album cover is circlism inspired
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I can't believe how you accomplish so much detail with just circles! Simply amazing.
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With the patience of an ascetic can make this art work. What surprises me is the gradient of color and placement, I tried to imagine how you calculate the size of the circles, the purity of the color range to reach a whole.
Personally that impressed me was "Remembering What I Am" is the achievement of bone structure and muscular cladding reminds me of Salvador Dali work based on the technique developed by Georges Seurat's pointillism.
Clearly, as technology becomes a tool of artistic creation and its management depends aciertio the artist.
The domain of anatomy and non-digital tools combine to give way to a style.
The past as future support in the here
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This piece really struck me as I do a lot of art work with skulls.
(thegrinningskull.com)
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Critique:
I think your style is a new way of creating visual images which I've never seen before. It strikes me as being the invert/opposite of "dot shading" where where the artist would activate hidden pigment in the paper with a solvent wash to create shaded dots show through a coloured area. Here coloured dots blossom through the darkness to create the image, It's beyond amazing.
Your Portfolio as a whole is impressive but this is particularly good. I understand why you want to use famous people so you can prove that you have captured the image accurately, but doing things like this where the content of the image is appropriate to the style is far more rewarding to the viewer. The emptiness between the circles, it makes me feel like there is an intense fragility to the composition, that moving a circle would ruin the entire illusion. This is particularly apt for an image concerned about life and death.
One of the great victories of this image is that you, despite your intensely precise style, have not been afraid to make an interpretative composition, I've attempted this image before and have fallen into the trap of overly expressive faces, making the skull to small (accurate size but it looks very wrong) not matching the cheekbones correctly et.c. Furthermore I'm impressed at how naturally this approach hides the division line between the two sides of the head which is usually a major problem.
I am not sure if you are a fan of hallucinogenic substances but this work is in my opinion at the avant guard of what hallucinogenic art should be in the digital era. It is particularly evocative of a Ketamine or perhaps a nitrous oxide induced hallucination. Both of those substances are dissociative, meaning that they leave you less connected with reality by showing you substrates of it. They often leave the user feeling as though they had to reconstruct the universe from scratch to return from the experience. The molecular/DNA feel to the style truly encapsulates this feeling at a time when these types of drugs are becoming more prevalent. I hope that this information is useful to your work and you are not disturbed by this interpretation, you certainty don't need hallucinogens to appreciate your art.
I know that this must have been a very personal project for you, thank you for sharing it with us.
Adam
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Good work, very artistic, and a original technique!
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awesome circle works , but I dont get it how is it both handmade and digital?
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You're right, I ws bit unclear and will change the description asap, I meant that it's made in an non-automated way, that no 3D program was involved to make the circles but that I apply them one by one with my digital pen... and my hand
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Great works BTW I love them all
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Very good ! it seems we have common "obsessions"...
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Amazing! Great concept, it make you think and looks awesome to boot! Excellent job!
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i am seriously impressed. the idea, the finished product.. so awesome.
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LOL not scary at all, i just love the way that we see your eye, because when you full view it, you only see some circles in color, and then, BAM, the eye is perfect.
Congrats for another perfect work my friend Ben,
Peace
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This is pretty crazy, but an amazing concept and a marvelous piece <3 x
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Great work again
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Another incredible work my friend -- your creativity certainly has no limits!
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