MONDAY ARTPOST 2024-0101

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2024-0101
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Columns by Artists and Writers
Bob Black / bq / Cem Turgay / Fiona
Smyth / Gary Michael Dault / Holly
Lee / Kai Chan / Kamelia Pezeshki
/ Lee Ka-sing / Malgorzata Wolak
Dault / Sarah Teitel / Shelley Savor
/ Tamara Chatterjee / Tomio Nitto
/ Yam Lau + OP Edition: A Diary of the
Distancing Place 010197 (Kith Tsang)
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Cem Turgay lives and works as a photographer in
Turkey.
Fiona Smyth is a painter, illustrator, cartoonist and
instructor in OCAD University's Illustration Program.
For more than three decades, Smyth has made a name
for herself in the local Toronto comic scene as well as
internationally.
http://fiona-smyth.blogspot.com
Gary Michael Dault lives in Canada and is noted for
his art critics and writings. He paints and writes poetry
extensively. In 2022, OCEAN POUNDS published two
of his art notebooks in facsimile editions.
Holly Lee lives in Toronto, where she continues to
produce visual and literal work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lee
Kai Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in
the sixties. He’s a notable multi-disciplinary artist who
has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad.
www.kaichan.art
Kamelia Pezeshki is a photographer living in Toronto.
She continues to use film and alternative processes to
make photographs.
www.kamelia-pezeshki.com
Ken Lee is a poet and an architectural designer based
in Toronto. He has been composing poetry in Chinese,
and is only recently starting to experiment with writing
English poetry under the pen name, “bq”.
Lee Ka-sing, founder of OCEAN POUNDS, lives in
Toronto. He writes with images, recent work mostly
photographs in sequence, some of them were presented
in the format of a book.
www.leekasing.com
Robert Black, born in California, is an award-winning
poet and photographer currently based in Toronto.
His work often deals with themes related to language,
transformation, and disappearance.
Sarah Teitel is a multidisciplinary artist living in
Toronto. She writes poems, songs and prose; draws,
sings and plays instruments.
sarahteitel1.bandcamp.com/album/give-and-take
Shelley Savor lives in Toronto. She paints and draws
with passion, focusing her theme on city life and urban
living experiences.
Tamara Chatterjee is a Toronto photographer who
travels extensively to many parts of the world.
Tomio Nitto is a noted illustrator lives in Toronto. The
sketchbook is the camera, he said.
Yam Lau, born in British Hong Kong, is an artist and
writer based in Toronto; he is currently an Associate
Professor at York University. Lau’s creative work
explores new expressions and qualities of space,
time and the image. He is represented by Christie
Contemporary.

TERRAIN, six. (Photographs by Lee Ka-sing, haiku by Gary Michael Dault
in response). Read this daily collaborative column at oceanpounds.com
The Real Boxing Day
New Year’s Eve.
Farewell to 2023
and good riddance.

Holly Lee
Transcript from the diary
已 過 了 一 個 X’mas 了 . Nothing special as expected. I dreamt of
Suki the night before. And last time I dreamt my ear recovered! I
told grandma it seems. The feeling was so real. Tomorrow, that’s
Wednesday, Lisa Cheung will come & visit us. We’ll cook lunch
for her. And also, I just finished writing “The Garden of Cosmic
Speculation” last night. It amounts to 1,400 words. Anyway, still
have to fine-tune the piece. Chat GPT did help my English. But
one must be careful not to give in your brain because it’s so Super
smart & convenient! Friday 29. Only a few days to 2024! Sharon
is here now, talking to ks. I’m so not tech savvy. I tried to use
the credit to buy a book but I don’t know how to find the app in
Audible. I have to ask Iris to help again. ks had sent the postcard
out to K&G. Hopefully we can have that piece coming out on
JAN. 1. My lump gets larger, with a few separated (seems like
lymph nodes). It hurts sometimes. I hope it’s heading the healing
route. I’m now trying to focus, to see what can be accomplished
today. Indeed, 2023 is quite full, and I don’t regret a bit to have
it – the diary all filled up. It looks so good…31st. Already New
Year’s Eve. But HA HA! I’m fasting! So cold & hungry. Sharon is
still interviewing ks, for the third day. Kenneth, her assistant is
helping to video the whole process…I’ll go up to 3/F to do reiki
& watch a movie…Tomorrow we’ll go to to Bill’s open house. And
I’ll start a new diary!!!
New Year’s Eve Greetings to seventy friends

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
You might be interested in Shelley Savor’s book
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/09/mcmc.html
The Key

OP Edition (an archive)
Kith Tsang
A Diary of the Distancing Place 010197
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)
Number 1/20, OP Edition
Signe and numbered on verso
As the practice of collecting photographs picked up
steam by 1994, the push motivated us to establish
a system for people to interact, exchange, acquire
and collect photographs. We set up The Original
Photograph Club that year and created a print
program called the OP Print Program. Ka-sing and I
co-curated the project and attended all administrative
and organizing work. It would be a quarterly
program, each quarter of the year would feature ten
photographers’ work. All participants would be required
to contribute an image with 20 editions, printed in the
size of 8 by 10 inches. These prints we referred to as OP
Editions.
(DISLOCATION 1992-1999, and Beyond [The OP Print
Program and OP Editions, 1994-1999], Holly Lee)

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

Open/Endedness
bq 不 清
冬 島
這 樣 子 的 模 仿
究 竟 有 多 少 大 海 的 成 分
能 夠 成 為 湖 水 呢 ?
生 命 都 簽 下 生 死 狀
大 部 分 魚 類 因 為 吞 下 過 多 水 分
腫 脹 而 逝
而 我 是 水 與 水 之 間 的 冰 塊
想 著 想 著 就
差 不 多 透 明 可 見 了

ISLE OF WINTER
Such an imitation…
How much of the ocean there
Can become a lake?
Lives have signed waivers.
Most fish would swell and die
As they gulp down too much water.
And I’m a chunky piece of ice amid water.
As I think about it,
I turn almost transparent, but visible.

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Drawing
ink on rice paper, 35 x 35 cm

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
Canada (December, 2023) – We skirted around
Bridal Veil Falls; along the winding path of
fairy houses, passing several bronze sculptures
and patches of dangling icicles without the
covering of snow. Mother nature has certainly
made her mark, as our expectations of snowcovered
indigenous territories failed to appear.
We arrived in Manitoulin expecting inclement
weather and perhaps an atmosphere of winter
wonderland. Instead the last day of the year
brought with it a mix of emotions, lost in
thoughts and taking in new memories while
adventuring into the woods.

Art Logbook
Holly Lee
1.
STELA
This video, from filmmaker Gordon Beswick, looks at the sculptural installation STELA (Super
Terrestrial Electric Light Aurora) by artist Lisa Cheung and Alex J. Tuckwood, which was featured
in Winter 2023 as part of the Southbank Centre’s free outdoor art exhibition.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/videos/winter-light-stela-lisa-cheung-and-alex-j-tuckwood
(5:06)
2.
Tsubo-niwa: Life Enhanced by Quintessential Spaces
坪 庭 : 提 高 生 活 質 感 之 極 致 空 間
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2029065/
(video 28 minutes)

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth
You might be interested in Fiona Smyth’s book
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/05/c456.html

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
Hotels in the Drift
somewhere snow lingers in the loins of distance, we
lick dampness off arms as time whiskers the windows, small white bruises
frozen
we travel toward each other from oppositional zones, furious
but winter stitched our bodies together, cavernous light hung against weathered air, shadows creaked
bent toward small openings of warmth, the gap in
names
shuttled between a bowl in the anteroom and the soap bellowing in a Papier-mâché netting, pivot
we shall too disappear, words caged in a key-locked black book, rhymes
set lose ink upon guests’ bodies, a carriage of hearts, hoof-clap clopping
a lantern glass
in the wind, thoughts engirdle—will you take form in the breath’s morning absolution, ever
ruminations, a playing deck of cards’ divestment, a late guest clocks in, memory unbuckles
ghost calligraphy writ small on the bathroom mirror with a finger, the skin’s ghost begs at barriers,
ache-laughed
signature trappings
along the body as shade comes down in heliography, a witness pressed hard against the sheets,
banner and map
knocking, a dark-bird’s sung-out sentiments spread wing, winter’s cadence
whelp, tongue-touched and worm-tied, so it seems down the alpine, the funitel abandoned
the moment

a second arm froze stiff, once we dreamed a gondola gone, was it only the imagined one
up the mountain, the light-burst puppet shadows in windows, the lobby boy’s gait and hunger
pears knifed on russet pillows, desire or a pretence galloping against something,
the abacus
turned you inside out, stories and bank loans and tattoos taken up with another silence or outspoken
lips
what you once desired from the high cumulus in one small pane of light, love against the blue outside
an alphabet of lip-sharing and verb-ticking and simply, the was it all too much to ask
the lift’d light
a phantom mark in the snow, as a green floral neck peaked through its burrow, the pawing of a glow
who left us long ago, the years
once, your brother drank from a funeral vase where roses soaked up a eulogy, drunken
the mad break, the lukewarm and the loss pooled at our ankles, our socks drooped
our ache unrolled
in the corridors, the falling ice unbuttoned our hearts, flake by iridescent flake, the umbrella left
behind at checkout,
do you feel the same fear as I on the back of the hunch of the night
memory stood stark at the foot of the bed, a periwinkle shadow took umbrage with the prints on the
walls
in the early morning a sum sung over you turned away, the window unlatched and a key dropped a
vowel at our knees
tap tap tap in the back room, a chipped sink bore a lather of soap and scent crossed what you were,
once
here thought or there conveniently known
as you pulled from the relics, scaffolding and dried flowers from the old wear
my love
we managed to survive the wind’s drift as death unbuckled another and another and another, pregnant
year.

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs,
2010-2023
Number 10: House of the Rising Sun
Note:
I did not take this photograph. I lifted it, over ten years ago, from
Ebay’s “Vintage Toy” section.

Black Flowers: Drawings
by Malgorzata Wolak Dault

The Photograph
Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Sad Wings of the Fallen, 2023 by James Rowan

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
Two Limousine Poems
1) Limo One
I walked the length
of a stretch limousine
and back
I got so tired
of spit and polish
I had to go
sit on the beach
and gaze at
the uncrafted rocks

2) Limo Two
I walked the length
of a limousine
long as a licorice stick
It made me think
of flypaper
sometimes of shoe polish
I never want
one of these
long cars
on the other hand
you could probably
build a bonfire
in its second section
and make coffee
and heat a can of beans
just like in
a John Ford movie
[Happy New 2024!]

Sketchbook
Tomio Nitto

(2009-2013) Z FICTION (Opp.3)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2009/01/opus3.html
(2011-2013) Z 話 本 (Opp.4)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2011/01/opus4.html
(1988) Hello Hong Kong (Op.5)
https://opus.leekasing.com/1988/01/opus5.html
(2023) fly-in-love 飛 天 情 書 (Op.7)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2023/01/opus7.html
(2012) The Psychological Journey while Taking a Colour Photograph of a Dinosaur (Op.8)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2012/01/opus8.html
(2015) MOVIOLA (Op.9)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2015/01/opus9.html
(2020) CODA (Op.11)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2020/01/opus11.html
(2022) Diary of a Sunflower Book Two (Op.12)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2022/01/opus12.html
(2022) “That afternoon” on Mubi, a dialogue: Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng (Op.13)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2022/12/opus13.html
OPUS Archive, an index
(2003) Five Senses (Opp.1)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2003/01/opus1.html
(1992-1994) Photographs for DISLOCATION cover (Opp.2)
https://opus.leekasing.com/1992/01/opus2.html
(2018) Thirty New Stories (Opp.14)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2018/01/opus14.html
(2023) Variations based on Kai Chan’s installations in “BECAUSE” (Opp.15)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2023/12/opus15.html
(2023) MOCA. Thomas Demand. a dialogue: (Op.16)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2023/01/opus16.html
(2016) Sixteen Picture Haiku I Created in 2013 (Op.17)
https://opus.leekasing.com/2016/08/opus17.html

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