MONDAY ARTPOST 2024-0603

MONDAY
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2024-0603
ISSN1918-6991
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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
+ If Sculpture Could Talk (Bill Grigsby,
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.

The Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee Archive ( 李 家 昇 黃 楚 喬 文 件 庫 ) was officially
inaugurated in April 2024. It is a permanent establishment located at 50
Gladstone Avenue in Toronto.
The Archive includes both artists’ current and past works, encompassing
photography, writings, and publications, along with related documents,
objects, artifacts, and other primary source materials related to the
photography scene in Hong Kong during the 90s.
Since the late 70s, Ka-sing and Holly have been deeply involved in
the development of contemporary photography in Hong Kong. They
contributed to the field through publishing DISLOCATION, the OP Print
program on photo collection, and founding the NuNaHeDuo Centre of
Photography. In 1997, the Lee family relocated to Toronto, Canada,
where they continued their art-related projects, including gallery ventures
and publishing. Today, Ka-sing and Holly remain active in creating works,
from photo-based series to creative writings. Their photography is part
of the collections at institutions like the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography, M+ Museum, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, and Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology.
In 2019, they began focusing on archiving their works and activities from
the past five decades, with books, writings, documentation, and exhibitions.
In Spring 2024, they officially inaugurated the Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee
Archive ( 李 家 昇 黃 楚 喬 文 件 庫 ) with a permanent archive and exhibition
space in downtown Toronto. The Archive is currently managed by Lee Kasing,
Holly Lee, and Iris Lee.
The Archive will continue to evolve through regular exhibitions, publishing,
and other activities, and will collaborate with writers, curators, researchers,
libraries, and institutions on related projects. For inquiries, please contact:
mail@leekasing.com.
THE 50 GLADSTONE 吉 石 大 道 50 號
A salon space for exhibitions and showcases
of items from the Archive. Visits by
appointment.
DOUBLE DOUBLE 李 家 昇 黃 楚 喬 博 物 誌
DOUBLE DOUBLE is a publishing project
focused on archiving the current and past
works of Ka-sing and Holly, as well as
their art-related projects. Initially released
as a weekly online zine from 2019 to
2021, it comprised 158 issues. In 2020, it
transitioned to monthly print-on-demand and
online flipbook formats. In 2024, DOUBLE
DOUBLE will continue to be published in
book form and will also include the Chinese
name 李 家 昇 黃 楚 喬 博 物 誌 .
K&H Archive Collections
This special edition includes modern prints
of major and lesser-seen works by Ka-sing
and Holly. Released in both 8x10 and 17x22
inch formats, these are open editions in
archival inkjet prints. Each print is stamped
and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Prints will be signed by the artist if available.
This long-term print project supports the
maintenance and management of the Archive.
Your support is important.

“50 Gladstone Avenue”, a poem by Leung Ping Kwan (1949-2013),
written in 2006. The poem was published at the test version issue
of DOUBLE DOUBLE (2006), this publication is now on shown at the
exhibition THE 50 GLADSTONE. English translation of the poem was by
Luo Hui.

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Out For A Walk

If Sculpture Could Talk:
a collaborative work
between Bill Grigsby,
Holly Lee and Lee Kasing
in a series of nine
sculptural work.
Seven: Castastrophe
Sculpture: Bill Grigsby
Photography: Lee Ka-sing
Poem: Holly Lee
Castastrophe
Mixed wire and brick, 2019
Sculpture: Bill Grigsby, Photography: Lee Ka-sing

Style of Falling
Style one
dense and tangled
falls hard, his bottom slams on a brick
Style two
descends like a parachute
lands soft, touchdown on the ground
Tangled man with bowler hat
hands palming back
fears of losing his head
Man of iron
born with long neck and short head
sways his long sleeves in rhythmic dance
A seated dancer by Tomio Nitto
95 x 90 x 58 mm, gesso, acrylic medium, iron, 2021

An installation
of seven poems
Lee Ka-sing
This work is currently showing at the exhibition THE 50 GLADSTONE

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
A couple of years ago, I composed a longish suite of poems
called Lorca Nearby that attempted to embody and
perpetuate my admiration for the great Spanish poet’s work.
I thought about them a couple of days ago after learning
of the recent death of American poet, translator
and cultural anthropologist Jerome Rothenherg (1931-2024).
It was my reading of Rothenberg’s powerful little book, The
Lorca Variations (New York: New Directions, 1993), that had
galvanized me into writing my own Lorca poems. Here are
the first four of them:
2) Lorca at the Lighthouse
from LORCA NEARBY
1) Lorca in the Garden
Lorca in the garden
scraping carrots
polishing potatoes
try to spot Lorca
in a long lens
you’ll see breaking waves
a couple of stray dogs
you might find him
at the lighthouse
sitting in a deck chair
on a sea turtle’s back
there’ll be
children dropping by
under the green sky

3) The Sun Goes Down
the sun goes down
like a lion
and comes up
like a nosegay of violets
in between
the unfurling
freight train night
passes
in a long rattle
of changing
click-clack pressures
of sour steel
over amnesiac wood
4) Lorca Flying his Soul
Lorca flying his soul
like a kite
Lorca holding up
his ice-cream soul
on a stick
Lorca rolling his heart
like a powdered donut
down
an embroidered hallway

Sketchbook
Tomio Nitto

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs,
2010-2024
Number 33: Buttons the Clown
I made this clown marionette in the summer of 1952.
I was twelve years old.
There was to be a course in puppetry-making
that summer at Queen’s University (I lived
in Kingston then)--but only for public-school
teachers. Understanding how keen I was to attend the
course anyhow, my genial grandfather talked so
persuasively on my behalf to the instructor, a rather
starchy Englishman who looked and talked like David
Niven, that I was allowed into the course--the only kid
among all those middle-aged women!
I called my puppet clown Buttons, after the
character played by James Stewart in the Cecil B.
DeMille film, The Greatest Show on Earth, about
the wonderful Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey
circus. The film had just come out and I saw it
about fifteen times (I still sometimes watch it on
DVD). I made more puppets after Buttons: I made
a concert pianist, for example, who looked a lot like
Arthur Rubinstein, and for whom my grandfather built
me a beautiful white plywood grand piano.

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
From the outskirts of Paris, the matriarch
and I travelled to Normandy for a tour of the
historic Mont-Saint-Michel. We hiked up to
the monastery admiring not only the medieval
compound, also the panoramic view of our
surroundings. While curious and adventurous,
I wasn’t envious of the brave souls who waded
through quicksand and low tide tributaries
to reach the entry gate, given the unusual
temperatures.

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

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

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