MONDAY ARTPOST 0502-2022

MONDAY
ARTPOST
0502-2022
ISSN1918-6991
MONDAYARTPOST.COM
Columns by Artists and Writers
Bob Black / Cem Turgay / Fiona
Smyth / Gary Michael Dault / Holly
Lee / Kai Chan / Kamelia Pezeshki
/ Lee Ka-sing / Mak Fung / Shelley
Savor / Tamara Chatterjee / Wilson
Tsang +Eleven drawings on camera
(Tomio Nitto)
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“In a world without
melancholy,
nightingales would
start burping.”
Emil Cioran

TANGENTS
Wilson Tsang
Modules

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
The Birds Returning
the birds come back
like a shower of sparks
as the winds
wipe away the winter
each bird
carries a blade of grass
in its beak
for weaving
the counterpane of spring
their song
drowns out
the hiss of traffic
and relines
the ante-rooms
of summer
Note: I wrote this in early April of 2020. It must
have seemed to me, despite the surging of COVID,
an essentially pastoral time. I could not write such a
poem now, during these war-torn, politically fragile
days. GMD

Yesterday Hong Kong
Mak Fung
Des Voeux Rd. Central, Hong Kong (1959). Gelatin silver photograph, 8x10 inch
From the collection of Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee

Neighbourhood
Lee Ka-sing

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Touring Through Mycelium Magic

ART LOGBOOK
Holly Lee
1. (suggested by Edwin) Figure Studies: Yukimi Akiba: The Body as Unraveled
http://lenscratch.com/2021/11/figure-studies-yukimi-akiba-the-body-as-unraveled
2. Japan’s Replica foods
https://www.ganso-sample.com/en/

From the Notebooks
(2010-2022)
Gary Michael Dault
Number 135: One Flower (May 19, 2012)

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Landscape, ink and pencil on paper

The Photograph
coordinated by
Kamelia Pezeshki
The Better Half by Keijo Tapanainen

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
Birdsong and Teeth
upon your eyes, the extraordinary
pollen draped and over the sill comes complexing
the bodily lightselves and the we and the you all around, us
and yet hidden from most beneath the exterior of our outward simplicity,
the cranial wrapping of our cerebral intestines, whaling inside a calcium
cage the contains fire and imagination in
the stream of our patch worked dendritic chemistry
put that in your bonnet as your toes mark up the rusting river song
indeed the extraordinary subcutaneous shaped death
bawks at itself
dominion and dominoes dodging thoughts,
this return to our preservative wombs in glass:
and yet
each failing dark opens the morning sung in feather and bony beak
continual
forgotten in the 6:00 am song, we a thought
how long our teeth torment us all our life, that creeking aging
and yet there they remain,
outlive our dissolution white as scrimshaw, small leviathans,
outward from our mousy skin dryed in time’s bath and hanging boneloose
what a remarkable heartbreak
even in this corporal failing:
and
the world was dark inside the wolf
and
the birds go on sounding, even in the dark
and
upon your eyes, 10,000 lives voyaged 10,000 Li

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
France (March, 2022) – Airline travel has
certainly changed over the last few years; I
used to find solace looking out the passenger
window feeling a connection to the nuts
and bolts, watching clouds curve over and
under the wings with the velocity of flight.
These days though with masks and mandates
it doesn’t have the same sense of calm and
excitement. Alas; I’m safe and sound back
in the comforts of the jungle oasis, joyfully
reminiscing of my adventure overseas despite
the added nasal swab.

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

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Tomio Nitto 日 塔 富 夫 is an award-winning graphic artist who has been living in Toronto
for over fifty years. A successful illustrator before the turn of the century, he is represented by
the prestigious graphic design studio REACTOR, working for major magazines and commercial
clients in Canada and the United States.
Tomio Nitto lives a minimal, easy peasy life. He doesn’t own a tv, a cell phone, a computer,
nor a car. He loves to walk and bike. In his spare time, Tomio paints, draws and sketches from
nature. In fact his art is largely inspired by nature’s relationship with the human race. His
graphic fable “The Red Rock”, which delivers a strong environmental message, was published
in 2006. The Camera drawing project began in 2010, resulting in an exhibition at INDEXG
in 2013. His most recent project and exhibition “Diary of Wonders” was based on discarded
materials collected from the shorelines of Leslie Spit. Through fine treatment and painting he
has injected each piece of scrap a new life, making them into meticulous and unique pieces
of objects. Diary of Wonders - an exhibition of these small works were shown at 50 Gladstone
Saloon (formerly Gallery 50) in 2021.
Tomio Nitto
Eleven drawings
on camera
Tomio Nitto drawing a Leica M (2010)

Tomio came to our gallery very
often. One day, I asked him
if he was interest in drawing
my cameras. Holly and I have
been working as photographers
for decades, and we have
accumulated quite a horde of
cameras in different formats.
That was the beginning of
Tomio’s camera drawing
project. We used a small corner
of the gallery to display his
camera drawings, and named it
“Tomio Nitto Camerashop”. In
the course of time he has drawn
over fifty cameras, some based
on mine, and others, cameras
from our friends. These are
available as prints, and for fun,
as buttons.

Kodak folding bed
4.25x6.5 on 620 rollfilm

Sea Gull twin-lens
120 rollfilm

Polaroid SX 70

Rollei 35T
35mm

Tomio Nitto and the SINAR Handy with 65mm lens (2010)
SINAR Handy
4x5

Tomio Nitto (2010)
Zone VI
8x10

Tomio Nitto (2010)
Paillard Bolex H16 RX
16mm

Polaroid 190

Leica M3
35mm

Linhof Super Technika IV
4x5

SINAR C
8x10

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