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\u00c2\u00a9 Ben Heine 2011. Used with permission.<\/p>\n

While web surfing this weekend, I came across a series of mixed-media art that blew my mind. I’m not a big art fan ordinarily, but to me this isn’t art, it’s fun!\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n

The artist is named Ben Heine, he comes from Brussels, Belgium, and he has both a Flickr site here<\/a> and a Facebook page here<\/a>. The above picture is #37 in a series called “Pencil vs. Camera,” where he takes a regular photograph of a scene and then superimposes upon it a pencil drawing that looks exactly like a continuation of the photograph. The pencil drawing shows what might<\/em> be hidden behind the paper… in some fantastical world.<\/p>\n

Heine says that the background photo for the picture above was taken under a church in Oia, Greece. The chessboard, of course, comes from his imagination. Some natural questions occur to me:<\/p>\n