MONDAY ARTPOST 0905-2022

MONDAY
ARTPOST
0905-2022
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 / Ngan Chun-tung / Shelley
Savor / Tamara Chatterjee / Wilson
Tsang / + Still Life Still: A Book of
the Vessels (Gary Michael Dault)
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TANGENTS
Wilson Tsang
The Present

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Late Night Drive

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
Pigeons and Paradox
statues in parks
wait on pigeons
like attendants
in washrooms
smooth jackets
hands out
big granites
floating in the park
whereas the pigeons
are the only
solid
heavy
things

Yesterday Hong Kong
Ngan Chun Tung
Morning in Tai Po (Yuen Chau Tsai 大 埔 元 州 仔 1963)
8x10 inch, gelatin siver photograph printed in the nineties
Edition 15/50, signed and titled on verso
From the collection of Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
The following poem, Hong Kong: Songs from the
Rooftops, is an 8-part poem that was written over the
course of the last 5 years. Each part corresponds to
a part of Hong Kong and each part also is dedicated
to a friend. It was completed this past spring. This
poem is dedicated to 8 friends, for whom the city
is a constant conversation in my head and heart,
regardless of the shape and tune.
This poem is dedicated to: Holly & Ka-sing Lee,
Nancy Li, Kai Chan, Yam Lau, Chris Song and Ting,
TimTim Cheng, Tammy Ho and Kristee Quinn.
May they always be filled with voices, food and
sound. Carry on.

Hong Kong: Songs from the Rooftops
“In these shaken times, who more than you holds
In the wind, our bittermelon, steadily facing
Worlds of confused bees and butterflies and a garden gone wild”
-- 梁 秉 鈞 , Bittermelon
VII Sai Kung: 西 貢 區
life splinters forward
et
we could not have our own--
memories already
sorted and peeled away—
the thread that holds the bamboo and palm light together.
He is that line that encircles shadow and rickshaw and holds you in place,
the line that brings the palimpsest of the child’s voice temperamental in the
corner of the neighbor’s life
and the long absences excavated
a grandmother’s sewing box falling off a broken balcony, splintered on the street
backalley cat accordianing itself through brick and mortal, balance beam life
your scribbled not a tram, sitting next to you a piece of paper fallen out of a
pocket
鬼 揞 眼
exoskeleton of a diary, a lost conductor, the paramour’s tears and parade,
dragon stone and dream--
as the walking guard demands written meaning
tabled upon jade jawlines
inked on family tensils and bones,
there is so much more.
Not so?
Still, waiting
you shall write that upon the scars of the river shelving the hillline
apples fallen upon the shy, persimmon and dragon fruit
underneath hooves
all that going and coming and tea once combined with pine needle and wool.
Thus: us, here.
I am you are
thinking of journeys, windward fire-burned settlings,
we leeward and hungry
ghost seed and flax sung set to flame
the crackle of ancestor,
a broken tooth, dimpled dappled stone and earth wing--
Hualien’s Eastern streets licked clean
the street vendor coastal chalked and quick
Taiwan taking toll through a forlorn train station: Duoliang 多 良
piggybacking one family lilting home,
one family disembarked, this stop and step and de-railing,
all its waving,
undulating wayward aspiration, memories per which
you climbed Eastward bound.
There their hearts grow wild from seed and surf and suffrage light
some thirsty self voracious in its fingering
the child tipping print upon soot and scenic swipes: ghosts
must be fed and so shall they--
must we?
Remaining with the impossible makes the ideapossible
The lacuna steeped inside
beside a solitary Lotus on a Sunday morning in August
and the years break like breath against the corners of our skin, wing’d and welp’d: 万 里 .
Once she held up the clouds while graffiti sled down the side of a wall
her tongue lapping up sky water and wind and there was something,
you new,
as she turned in the slanterned light, slacken
a thread that holds the bamboo and palm light together:
the bamboo thread that holds it all together
or was it only ever you.

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Drawing.
watercolour and pastel on paper

Open/Endedness
bq 不 清
給 不 懂 這 首 歌 的 意 思 的 你
FOR YOU WHO HAS NO CLUE WHAT THIS SONG MEANS
有 沒 有 想 過 為 什 麼 雀 鳥 不 會
因 為 出 於 惡 意 而 失 聲 走 調 ?
清 晨 這 裡 , 檜 柏 樹 的
影 子 伸 展 得 又 長 又 低 就 像
Ever wondered why birds don’t
Chirp out of tune, out of spite?
Out here in the morning, junipers’
Shadows stretch long and low like
在 曠 野 上 隱 身 的 陸 軍 爬 行 , 而
只 要 太 陽 仍 然 能 像 增 添 了
顛 音 的 左 手 順 暢 地 連 奏 以 及
拱 於 天 空 , 永 遠 維 持
Stealth army crawls in the open, and
It is impossible for them to forever stay
In those shapes so long as the sun still
Arches across the sky like a smooth
那 個 形 狀 是 不 可 能 的 ——
悅 耳 的 聲 音 , 不 是 嗎 ? 但 偶 爾
事 情 很 快 會 陷 入 困 境
在 一 個 空 曠 的 十 字 路 口 , 停 止 標 誌 持 續
Left-hand legato, enriched with vibratos—
It’s music to our ears, isn’t it… but once in a while
Things can get bogged down real quick.
At an empty intersection, stop signs keep on
告 訴 對 方 停 止 前 行
彷 彿 他 們 無 法 對 事 情 有 一 致 的
看 法 。 引 線 穿 針 能 令 人 感 到 挫 敗
我 是 明 白 的 , 但 同 時
Telling each other to stop moving
Forward as though they can’t see eye to eye on
every Issues. Threading needles is frustrating,
I am sure, but at the same time, what
你 的 鬥 雞 眼 是 如 此 的 滑 稽 啊
這 些 能 在 這 裡 播 放 的 歌 曲
一 定 令 你 感 到 奇 怪 。 一 群 蜜 蜂
被 自 己 香 甜 的 蜜 糖 粘 著 了 。
Comic relief your crossed eyes can be.
It must be weird for you to hear different
Songs being played here. A swarm of bees
Stuck in their own sweet honey.

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

ART LOGBOOK
Holly Lee
From Nowness: Meet the artist – Cecilia Vicuña
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAqzigyfFtA
YouTube 4:57
The Spin Spin Triangulene is the artist’s first solo show in a New York
museum.
This retrospective features Vicuña’s artistic production from the late 1960s
to today, including paintings, works on paper, textiles, films, a site-specific
Quipu (Knot) installation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZA7FZVrG70
YouTube 10:02
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dHngNXhvVk
YouTube 4:02
Trailer “KON KON” - a documentary film by Cecilia Vicuña
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9KFOaWD1LE
(HD video, 54 min, Chile 2010)
Cecilia Vicuna
http://www.ceciliavicuna.com/

The Photograph
coordinated by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Au Bout Du Monde by Christine Fitzgerald

From the Notebooks
(2010-2022)
Gary Michael Dault
From the Notebooks, 2010-2022
Number 153: The Buddha listening to the emanation of a rock (July 9, 2013)

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
Canada (August, 2022) – We arrived to the
sounds of rhythmic vibrations; eagerly we
explored the vitalized movements circulating
around several groups of drummers.
In observance, in admiration, deep in
wonderment we spent the day taking in the
happenings at the Three Fire annual powwow.

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