MONDAY ARTPOST 2024-0513

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2024-0513
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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 /
Yvonne Pigott
+ The Last Dance (Holly Lee)
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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.

林 海 (L.H.) is a love story. It is also a love
story about photography. The initial sixteen
fragments have recently been compiled into
a book for the occasion of the exhibition
“THE 50 GLADSTONE.”
You can access a complimentary version
online via this link:
reads.oceanpounds.com/2024/04/lh.html
For those interested, a collector’s edition
of this book, in hardcover, is available on
BLURB:
blurb.ca/b/11978672
The archive of 林 海 (L.H.) in text file format
can be found at:
LH.leekasing.com
A Fictional Work by Lee Ka-sing

Holly Lee
The Last Dance: sixteen variations from a retired rubber band

The Photograph
Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Dancing in the dust by Zohreh Sabaghnejad

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Drawing
35 x 35 cm, acrylic paint on paper

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
take a breath
of golden steam
feel the gleam
in your lungs
Goldsmithing
(after reading The Autobiography
of Benvenuto Cellini)
cinch a golden rule
around your waist
begin tolling
like a bell
draw from the heat
a brick
of white-hot
gold
strike the gold
with a ruby hammer
wipe your face
on your gilded
sleeve
hear how
the gold shrieks
golden sparks
fly off
like fireflies
look down
to see your feet
going gold
ring out your skills
over the blood-thin land
make glittering vows
to the court
with the weight
of your gilded givings
and misgivings
die into
jeweled history
its gold dust
on the page

The Ceramicist
with slabs of cloud
wearing back
a vase in the sun
cutting it
alive again
speaking
just the conjugal letter
not a whole word
prying them together
this wolfen letter
and the raised fingers
gradually coming loose
the palm bearing
down
then watching
the cloud block
spin forward
into an amphora

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
I remembered the oppressive heat the moment
I stepped off the plane. Delhi was hot, humid,
sticky... also busy, loud and a little chaotic.
It was also exciting to be back immersed in
the home of the ancestors, wandering the
market’s and peregrinating around some of the
historical sites. On our way we stopped at the
Agrasen ki Baoli, where somehow the midday
sun, its heat and humidity, seemed acceptable
to the ghostly Canadian wayfarers and hoards
of other visitors wanting respite from mother
nature.

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Deep Dive

Black Flowers: Drawings
by Malgorzata Wolak Dault

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs,
2010-2024
Number 30: Tail Lights
It must be five years ago now that I decided, for some
demented reason, that a female character in a novel I
was trying to write, would become fascinated
by the rather strained variations in the design of automobile
trail lights and wish to write about them--as
sites of a runaway desperation in the auto industry to effect
design individuality and thus memorability and, in the end,
desire. I know, I know, it was a really stupid idea.
To that end, I drove one afternoon to a mall in our town and
spent about 30 minutes photographing the back ends of
some cars parked there.
About an hour after getting home again, and consigning my photos
to my hard drive, there suddenly comes a rough, authoritative knock at
the door. It’s a short little sandbag of a policewoman who demands with
surprising hostility, I thought, to know why I had been taking photographs
of cars at the mall. Someone has seen me, she tells me, and reported me.
I told her it was not cars I was photographing, it was their tail lights.
This made her even more annoyed (It occurred to me that she now had me
pegged as an exotic sexual deviant who got excited about the rear ends
of automobiles). Why tail lights? she demanded to know.
I told her I was writing a novel and one of my characters was fascinated
by tail lights. This didn’t go over awfully well.
In the end, I had to invite her up to my studio, open my computer
and let her read a page or two of dialogue from my tail-light-loving
protagonist. This didn’t go well either, but at least it convinced
her that I was more a lunatic than a thief or pervert.

Sketchbook
Tomio Nitto

THE 50 GLADSTONE
Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee Archive
(Works, Objects, Artifacts, 1976 to current)
An exhibition: April 27 to July 28, 2024
50 Gladstone Avenue artsalon, Toronto
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