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<strong>MONDAY</strong><br />
<strong>ARTPOST</strong><br />
<strong>2024</strong>-<strong>0115</strong><br />
ISSN1918-6991<br />
<strong>MONDAY</strong><strong>ARTPOST</strong>.COM<br />
Columns by Artists and Writers<br />
Bob Black / bq / Cem Turgay / Fiona<br />
Smyth / Gary Michael Dault / Holly<br />
Lee / Kai Chan / Kamelia Pezeshki<br />
/ Lee Ka-sing / Malgorzata Wolak<br />
Dault / Sarah Teitel / Shelley Savor<br />
/ Tamara Chatterjee / Tomio Nitto /<br />
Yam Lau<br />
+ OP Edition: Gloucester Road 1991 (Yau Leung)<br />
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<strong>ARTPOST</strong> contributors<br />
Cem Turgay lives and works as a photographer in<br />
Turkey.<br />
Fiona Smyth is a painter, illustrator, cartoonist and<br />
instructor in OCAD University's Illustration Program.<br />
For more than three decades, Smyth has made a name<br />
for herself in the local Toronto comic scene as well as<br />
internationally.<br />
http://fiona-smyth.blogspot.com<br />
Gary Michael Dault lives in Canada and is noted for<br />
his art critics and writings. He paints and writes poetry<br />
extensively. In 2022, OCEAN POUNDS published two<br />
of his art notebooks in facsimile editions.<br />
Holly Lee lives in Toronto, where she continues to<br />
produce visual and literal work.<br />
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lee<br />
Kai Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in<br />
the sixties. He’s a notable multi-disciplinary artist who<br />
has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad.<br />
www.kaichan.art<br />
Kamelia Pezeshki is a photographer living in Toronto.<br />
She continues to use film and alternative processes to<br />
make photographs.<br />
www.kamelia-pezeshki.com<br />
Ken Lee is a poet and an architectural designer based<br />
in Toronto. He has been composing poetry in Chinese,<br />
and is only recently starting to experiment with writing<br />
English poetry under the pen name, “bq”.<br />
Lee Ka-sing, founder of OCEAN POUNDS, lives in<br />
Toronto. He writes with images, recent work mostly<br />
photographs in sequence, some of them were presented<br />
in the format of a book.<br />
www.leekasing.com<br />
Robert Black, born in California, is an award-winning<br />
poet and photographer currently based in Toronto.<br />
His work often deals with themes related to language,<br />
transformation, and disappearance.<br />
Sarah Teitel is a multidisciplinary artist living in<br />
Toronto. She writes poems, songs and prose; draws,<br />
sings and plays instruments.<br />
sarahteitel1.bandcamp.com/album/give-and-take<br />
Shelley Savor lives in Toronto. She paints and draws<br />
with passion, focusing her theme on city life and urban<br />
living experiences.<br />
Tamara Chatterjee is a Toronto photographer who<br />
travels extensively to many parts of the world.<br />
Tomio Nitto is a noted illustrator lives in Toronto. The<br />
sketchbook is the camera, he said.<br />
Yam Lau, born in British Hong Kong, is an artist and<br />
writer based in Toronto; he is currently an Associate<br />
Professor at York University. Lau’s creative work<br />
explores new expressions and qualities of space,<br />
time and the image. He is represented by Christie<br />
Contemporary.
TERRAIN, six. (Photographs by Lee Ka-sing, haiku by Gary Michael Dault<br />
in response). Read this daily collaborative column at oceanpounds.com<br />
“Should Old Inscriptions Be Forgot<br />
and Never Brought to Mind....”<br />
Hasty old jottings<br />
on a chalkboard<br />
become dusty new truths
Black Flowers: Drawings<br />
by Malgorzata Wolak Dault
Open/Endedness<br />
bq 不 清<br />
Winter Haiku<br />
1.<br />
bald angry trees<br />
are upside down brooms<br />
sweeping cirrus clouds<br />
2.<br />
O, homeless carrot<br />
soaks in the warm body of<br />
a melted snowman<br />
3.<br />
it renames<br />
the wild white petals —<br />
it resurrects a winter
CHEEZ<br />
Fiona Smyth<br />
You might be interested in Fiona Smyth’s book<br />
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/05/c456.html
Scherzo<br />
Holly Lee<br />
Three. Louise Glück<br />
What is the definition of “one”? From the book cover, I thought I saw two<br />
figures and assumed they were the twins Marigold and Rose. However,<br />
they are, in fact, derived from the same drawing, easily deluding me into<br />
believing there are two. “Marigold and Rose” is a story about the divisible<br />
and the indivisible: one and two – a pair of twins and their first year of life.<br />
In reality, the death of Glück’s elder sibling before she was born created<br />
a trauma that plagued her life as a replacement child. Reading about the<br />
first year of Marigold and Rose’s lives is like probing into the writer’s mind,<br />
exploring her imagination of ‘the other self,’ a dialogue, and an investigation<br />
into two completely different sets of characters, clearly defining what one<br />
could have been, and the other, an imaginary and wistful thinking. Identical<br />
twins inherit a sense of oneness. One can be single, simultaneously plural.<br />
It is hardly surprising that a person can have two different minds, often<br />
wrestling with each other. Glück’s last work was written in plain, clear-cut<br />
language, filled with puns and wit, making it a pleasure to read. Joyce’s<br />
‘Finnegans Wake,’ at certain levels, unveils his emotional challenges<br />
stemming from being born into his parents’ grief over the loss of their<br />
firstborn son. It is a significantly challenging work to read. However, I will<br />
make an attempt, if only for the novel’s musicality. I can listen to it before<br />
reading, or do both – hitting one bird with two arrows.
Poem a Week<br />
Gary Michael Dault<br />
Where to Write<br />
Walter Benjamin<br />
notes somewhere<br />
that he writes<br />
only while lying down<br />
Hemingway<br />
seems to have written<br />
standing up<br />
I’d like to write<br />
on the ceiling<br />
or for darker texts<br />
on the floor<br />
or on doors<br />
It’s be good<br />
to write on doors<br />
texts coming and going
Fragments for<br />
a photograph<br />
Lee Ka-sing<br />
( 方 桌 )<br />
我 選 擇 昨 天 重 新 移 動 過 安 放 位 置 的 6 呎 乘 6 呎 方 枱 , 面 對 靠 左 向 街 方<br />
向 的 一 邊 坐 下 , 邊 吃 著 我 的 早 餐 及 享 用 那 法 式 輾 壓 礶 冲 來 的 咖 啡 。 邊<br />
看 著 東 與 北 相 連 的 那 兩 頁 玻 璃 大 窗 , 夜 色 漸 漸 從 通 透 的 玻 璃 中 褪 去 。<br />
這 一 回 , 方 桌 也 總 算 和 窗 外 街 上 的 主 流 有 個 整 合 。 昨 夜 所 下 的 雨 雪 已<br />
經 溶 去 , 而 且 , 街 上 開 始 乾 露 起 來 , 沒 有 太 多 的 水 漬 。 還 沒 有 外 出 ,<br />
也 不 知 溫 度 是 否 寒 凍 , 如 預 測 所 言 , 是 零 下 若 干 。<br />
An archive of this series in text format is available at: LH.leekasing.com
Greenwood<br />
Kai Chan<br />
Drawing<br />
35 x35 cm, ink on rice paper
ProTesT<br />
Cem Turgay
Gary Michael Dault<br />
From the Photographs,<br />
2010-2023<br />
Number 12: Two Cats
Thinking Party<br />
Sarah Teitel<br />
Game of Likening<br />
The drops of ice<br />
that ornament the barren branches<br />
complain when I call them pearls.<br />
“We are no such thing,”<br />
they say.<br />
Nothing, thought upon,<br />
is a neon bramble<br />
that stretches across the backs of my eyelids.<br />
I cling to my game of likening<br />
as a child clutches her stuffed toy<br />
for comfort.<br />
The road laughs<br />
when I claim it is coy<br />
because it veers to make a secret<br />
of what lies ahead.<br />
“I do not bend to charm you,”<br />
it corrects.<br />
My game swallows nothing.<br />
Even nothing<br />
is like something.<br />
The day refuses my metaphors,<br />
shrugs them off of its shoulders.<br />
The flat grey light suggests I go home,<br />
lie down and think of nothing.
Sketchbook<br />
Tomio Nitto
The Photograph<br />
Selected by<br />
Kamelia Pezeshki<br />
Eastern shore, Nova Scotia by Gordon Hawkins
Yau Leung<br />
Gloucester Road (1991)<br />
8x10 inch, gelatin silver print (printed in the 90s)<br />
Number 1/20<br />
Signed and numbered on verso<br />
OP Edition<br />
Yau Leung
Caffeine Reveries<br />
Shelley Savor<br />
You might be interested in Shelley Savor’s book<br />
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/09/mcmc.html<br />
Song
(2009-2013) Z FICTION (Opp.3)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2009/01/opus3.html<br />
(2011-2013) Z 話 本 (Opp.4)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2011/01/opus4.html<br />
(1988) Hello Hong Kong (Op.5)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/1988/01/opus5.html<br />
(2023) fly-in-love 飛 天 情 書 (Op.7)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2023/01/opus7.html<br />
(2012) The Psychological Journey while Taking a Colour Photograph of a Dinosaur (Op.8)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2012/01/opus8.html<br />
(2015) MOVIOLA (Op.9)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2015/01/opus9.html<br />
(2020) CODA (Op.11)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2020/01/opus11.html<br />
(2022) Diary of a Sunflower Book Two (Op.12)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2022/01/opus12.html<br />
(2022) “That afternoon” on Mubi, a dialogue: Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng (Op.13)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2022/12/opus13.html<br />
OPUS Archive, an index<br />
(2003) Five Senses (Opp.1)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2003/01/opus1.html<br />
(1992-1994) Photographs for DISLOCATION cover (Opp.2)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/1992/01/opus2.html<br />
(2018) Thirty New Stories (Opp.14)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2018/01/opus14.html<br />
(2023) Variations based on Kai Chan’s installations in “BECAUSE” (Opp.15)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2023/12/opus15.html<br />
(2023) MOCA. Thomas Demand. a dialogue: (Op.16)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2023/01/opus16.html<br />
(2016) Sixteen Picture Haiku I Created in 2013 (Op.17)<br />
https://opus.leekasing.com/2016/08/opus17.html
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