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DOUBLE DOUBLE webzine archive <strong>2019</strong>-2021<br />
DOUBLE DOUBLE was initially released as a weekly publication,<br />
spanning from January 4, <strong>2019</strong>, to December 31, 2021, with a<br />
total of 158 issues. Following this, it underwent a transformation<br />
into book-on-demand and ebook formats, transitioning into a<br />
monthly release structure. This monthly publication continued<br />
from January 2022 until the end of 2023. As of 2024, the<br />
frequency of publication shifted to a quarterly basis. Despite<br />
these changes, the content consistently maintained its focus on<br />
the archival material from Ka-sing and Holly, new works, and<br />
collaborative pieces.<br />
<strong>0201</strong>-<strong>2019</strong><br />
(edition February 1, <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
50 Gladstone, photographs (Lee Ka-sing) /<br />
The Thinker, poem (Holly Lee) / VINTAGE - Friends,<br />
Artists and People I Know (Holly Lee) / Sushi Grass<br />
in Paradise, a novel (Holly Lee) / PAPER TALK -<br />
Ara Güler & Yau Leung (Holly Lee) / BOOKSCAPE -<br />
The Language of Fruits and Vegetable (Lee Ka-sing)
CURRENT WORK 1<br />
Lee Ka-sing<br />
Selected photographs from the series “50<br />
Gladstone Avenue 吉 石 大 道 50 號 , a macro<br />
and micro documentary in present tense”<br />
January 30, <strong>2019</strong> (snowflake)
January 25, <strong>2019</strong> (roses)
January 25, <strong>2019</strong> (tree)
January 25, <strong>2019</strong> (crocodile)
January 25, <strong>2019</strong> (happy)
January 25, <strong>2019</strong> (M)
January 11, <strong>2019</strong> (armchair Dr. NO)
January 25, <strong>2019</strong> (space dish Broncolor)
January 25, <strong>2019</strong> (double)
CURRENT WORK 1<br />
A poem by Holly Lee, with image by Lee Ka-sing<br />
The Thinker (after Rodin)<br />
Is it really<br />
our time has past<br />
couldn’t catch up<br />
don’t really want to<br />
is it really<br />
a backward idea<br />
Is it only<br />
nostalgia<br />
wouldn’t fall behind<br />
don’t really want to<br />
is it really<br />
a clever idea<br />
Then is it safe<br />
to stay still<br />
or just swim<br />
in familiar water<br />
it might not<br />
be a bad idea<br />
And, is it fair<br />
to get despair<br />
when all our lifetimes<br />
can now be shared<br />
is it not<br />
an uplifting idea
VINTAGE<br />
Vintage photographs by Holly Lee<br />
Friends, Artists and People I Know<br />
我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及 其 他<br />
“Friends, Artists and People I Know 我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及<br />
其 他 ”, a series of photographs which was originally made for<br />
an invited exhibition “WOMEN OF THE WORLD”, held in<br />
May 1981. A<strong>dd</strong>itional portraits were made for “camera works,<br />
holly & wingo”, our two-person exhibition held at Hong Kong<br />
Arts Centre (June, 1981). The project continued through 1985<br />
and around 30 portraits were made. A portfolio case of vintage<br />
photographs (23 counts) is still with us, which contains most of<br />
the photographs from the 1981 exhibition.<br />
In 2012, The Hong Kong Heritage Museum organized the<br />
“BEYOND THE PORTRAIT” exhibition. The committee had<br />
selected ten works from this series, which was later collected<br />
by the museum after the exhibition. Those are newly made<br />
Archival Pigment Prints, in the size of 17”x22”.
Friends, Artists and People I Know 我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及 其 他<br />
16”x20” gelatin silver prints, photographed and printed in 1981<br />
Antonio Mak Hin-Yeung (sculptor) 麥 顯 揚
Li Kam Fai (illustrator) 李 錦 煇
Mak Siu-Tong (Cantonese rod puppets master) 麥 兆 棠
Chung Ling Ling (writer) 鍾 玲 玲
Ann Hui (film director) 許 鞍 華
Tang Wong Zim (my grandmother) 鄧 旺 嬋
Helen Lai (modern dance choreographer) 黎 海 寧
Fanny Chan (studio assistant) 陳 靜 芬
Leung Kui Ting (artist) 梁 巨 廷
Chan Man (artist) 陳 文
Helga Burger (Asian performance art promoter) 布 海 歌
ARTIFACT<br />
Friends, Artists and People I Know 我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及 其 他<br />
16”x20” gelatin silver prints, photographed and printed in 1981<br />
A review by Nigel Cameron on the exhibition WOMEN OF THE WORLD”, published on South<br />
China Morning Post, May 27, 1981.<br />
(WONG is Holly’s family name. She began to use HOLLY LEE in 1981 and keeps the name in<br />
Chinese as 黃 楚 喬 )
CURRENT WORK 3<br />
Sushi Grass in Paradise (A story)<br />
written by Holly Lee<br />
with photograph by Lee Ka-sing<br />
(1) Bento Family<br />
Saturday morning, cloudy with occasional showers. Mrs.<br />
Bento woke up with a headache the minute she thought about<br />
changing the clock to Standard Time. That meant she had to<br />
deal with every time device in the house - the phones, the oven,<br />
the radio with a CD player, and all the other gadgets that have<br />
a time display on. “Can I just put myself back one hour so I<br />
don’t have to adjust all this stuff?”. To relieve herself, Mrs.<br />
Bento decided to fall back an hour when she’s in the house.<br />
“Everybody just checks their cell phones for time anyway...and<br />
what’s more, I don’t need to go back to Daylight Saving Time<br />
next Spring.” She laid down the Standard Time business with a<br />
sigh of relief and fell right back to dreaming.<br />
Mrs. Bento is not Japanese. She and her husband got the<br />
Bento name from their customers. Having immigrated with<br />
their daughter, Ginger, from Hong Kong twenty years ago, as<br />
soon as they arrived in Toronto, they took a friend’s advice and<br />
bought a franchise business in the airport area in Mississauga.<br />
It was a small sushi bar; work was hard, and no business was<br />
easy. But with Mrs. Bento’s clever makeover of a 21st-century<br />
home-packed meal, combining nutrition, taste, and value, the<br />
new Bento Box proved to be a top seller. After six years of<br />
continuous hard work, they saved up a 20% down payment to<br />
purchase a house in downtown Toronto, in an area known as<br />
West Queen West. The Bentos love city life, the short walk to all<br />
activities on the street, proximity to cafes, shops, restaurants,<br />
galleries, a supermarket, and the postal office. Nearby there is<br />
even the Theatre Centre, newly converted from a historic library<br />
building built way back in 1908.
PAPER TALK<br />
Written by Holly Lee<br />
Wooden crates as pulling carts<br />
For back street boys<br />
Wooden crate as pillow box<br />
On a sidewalk bed<br />
Run ye run<br />
Against the setting sun<br />
Dream ye dream<br />
For the day is done<br />
Left: Ara Güler - Zeyrek, Fatih, 1968<br />
(“Ara Güler’s Istanbul”. Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2015)<br />
Right: Yau Leung - Wellington Street, Central Hong Kong, 1966<br />
(Yau Leung “Growing up in Hong Kong”. Publisher: Photo Arts 1994)
H+K COLLECTION<br />
Update<br />
This photograph was sold in June <strong>2019</strong>, at SOTHEBY’S, Hong Kong,<br />
during the exhibition:<br />
‘VISION OF HONG KONG, From Two Generations -<br />
YAU LEUNG | LEE KA-SING” (June 6-25, <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Yau Leung<br />
Photograph printed in the Nineties<br />
8”x10” fibre-based gelatin silver print, signed and numbered on verso<br />
OP Selection, with “OP Selection” blind-stamp<br />
Edition 1/100
BOOKSCAPE<br />
The Language of Fruits and Vegetable 蔬 果 說 話<br />
“The Language of Fruits and Vegetable 蔬 果 說 話 ” was a collaboration piece between Leung<br />
Ping Kwan (1949-2013) and Lee Ka-sing. It presented a dialogue between poem and images<br />
and was an installation-based continuum in Leung and Lee’s project “FOODSCAPE”. In the<br />
FOODSCAPE exhibition in 2004, Ka-sing took the form of an artist book, which consisted of<br />
one poem “Green Salad” from Leung’s poem series “The Language of Fruits and Vegetable”,<br />
and 252 photographs selected from Lee’s photo series titled “dot hong kong”. Five hundred<br />
exhibition copies were printed to present as an installation in the exhibition “Hong Kong<br />
Foodscape” (Leung Ping Kwan, Lee Ka-sing and Millie Chen) held at the Hong Kong Heritage<br />
Museum from July 11 to October 4, 2004. The books are 5.5” x 5.5”, 288 pages. In a<strong>dd</strong>ition, a<br />
limited edition of 252 copies were made and available to the public.<br />
“The Language of Fruits and Vegetable” was published by Ocean and Pounds and Hong Kong<br />
Heritage Museum in 2004. Publication designed by Lee Ka-sing
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