MONDAY ARTPOST 2024-0527

MONDAY
ARTPOST
2024-0527
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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
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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, nine. (Photographs by Lee Ka-sing, haiku by Gary Michael Dault
in response). Read this daily collaborative column at oceanpounds.com
Unstoppable
the mother ship is stilled
but an upstart pod
peels off on a new mission

TERRAIN available at BLURB
TERRAIN, one
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11625068-terrain-one
TERRAIN, two
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11640008-terrain-two
TERRAIN, three
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11682715-terrain-three
TERRAIN, four
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11740766-terrain-four
TERRAIN, five
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11898660-terrain-five
TERRAIN, six
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11899037-terrain-six

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

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Splinter

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
The Kuan Yao Porcelain Vase
in the course
of browsing
again through
Lawrence Binyon’s
delicate albeit
now scruffy book
Chinese Art*
I found myself
astonished
by the moon-bright
Sung vase**
facing page 52
rightly if tepidly
called “beautiful”
by Binyon
who takes note
of colours I cannot see
its “pale bluish grey
glaze” (p. 52)
who talks about
the controlled
crackle I cannot feel
but what I can feel
is the insistent push
of its chalk-white
on my yellowing page
the way the vase gleams
past fourteen hundred
years
like a streetlight,
like a vase-shaped hole
in a black wall
with antique light
shining through
May 16, 2024
*Lawrence Binyon. Chinese Art (London: Kegan Paul, etc., 1935)
**Kuan Yao Porcelain Vase, Sung Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279), British
Museum

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
萬 里
“Every day for the thief but one day for the owner.”—Yoruba Proverb
every day for the thief
you awaken upon an onyx belly, RGB 53, 56, & 57
night stirs the bitten mountain’s thunder snap, spit quick
pain rivers down an over-slept neck or is it just the world
as the body huddles and the heart reaches out with leaves in its teeth
language in its claws, the mind launders the rewound back inside
the laundry up the hill, whispering
how often you count the hours, the morning slide between rain and shadow clocking, the sharp stick
of light clack beneath your nails on gravel, breath a calculus solved on a tongue, the rodents and
crickets sing
hymns as you turn away from the sea

the grass grovels beneath a prostrate sky, your life an upturned bowl of porcelain goes black and
brown
every day for the thief and the owner awaits the drowned
night shoulders bodies from underground
mourning lullabies steal nibble words that well in the shower cold and late, weather debates
the steps tangent from corner roof to cornice slide, the tile mumbles over the grout and the pane
of turquoise you ran a small finger along, the tip of the streets and the infinite, vain
word locked behind a door, a coyote caught in a turnstile and the clotted fur in the jaw’s mundane
unbuckle
you became green when loss grasshoppered up a shoulder blade
your child hawking on the playground’s merry-go-round
as each parent sang “here we go round the mulberry bush” in stacks up the block
a fork rather than a knife and you tried to be
every loss, every coin in the washer, the cats on the sheets a moment for the thief
stray dogs, torn flipflops, scent of licorice between teeth, toes that conjure spells
in the sand hidden from fact and the glue of beeswax
the thieving a way of a day in a lost homosapien’s life
no matter the acrobatics of mind or with a steady pen
nets of construction veil debris, detritus abandoned the lot of you
the gained body, the surgery line tracking up your chest still angel-white
the scars reappear, the songs reassemble
all those lines, lies and lives, the sentences eliminated
the birds the light kept alive appear on a broken sill
the going kept longing and the kept-going unpacked
in the departing light the birds clammer and clap
death, do you forsake love now, with a good heart and bad eye
weeded when it turns the corner, strays behind a scent, gets tossed in a pot
a castaway blue night picks bones upstream and deposited form a motte
for the world and where you and I
dragon away a saucer of tin-can hurt and cups of stars and chipped teeth sink and sway
rust and rainwater scatter, love and despair fertilize beneath us tangled in May’s hair
the day you died, I broke up with poetry
tore up the signed pre-nuptial romance of words
acrimonious syllables gone bleak down Bleecker street
the hated, the grotesque lug of languor’s carnival in rhyme
the carnivore’s craving composing approval of metre’s crime
while all along we walked and walked the dog to death
in the shape of blood and scribble, poem after poem after poem
I made a retreat for higher, steadier ground
but teeth still rot

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

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
(visit by appointment: mail@oceanpounds.com)

Black Flowers: Drawings
by Malgorzata Wolak Dault

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs,
2010-2024
Number 32: My Quill (for Poetry Only)

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
France (May, 2024) - We spent the day lost
in nostalgia, rediscovering a changing city.
Our last stop was a pleasurable jaunt through
le Centre Pompidou, literally dazed in the
simplicity of Brancusi spirited sculptures.

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