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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/ Shelley Savor / Tamara
Chatterjee / Wilson Tsang /
+Pairing (Kai Chan):‐)Book Review
Fiona Smyth CHEEZ 456
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Book Review
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CHEEZ by Fiona Smyth
480 pages, 8x10 paperback, $85.00
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Book Review
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CHEEZ by Fiona Smyth
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From the Notebooks
(2010-2022)
Gary Michael Dault
From the Notebooks, 2010-2022
Number 163: Giacometti Comes to a Flaw in the Road (August 2, 2022).
The painting comes with a poem--or perhaps a near-poem:
Giacometti came to a flaw in the road
and stopped at once to adjust his load
which spread on the ground
like lemon peels
behind his heels
and while he pondered
his fallen self
a fox sauntered up and ate the parings
leaving Giacometti to recast his bearings:
and he came to a conclusion
after a moment’s confusion:
“Come, Annette, we need not
linger here.”
To which Annette replied
“Very well, my dear.”

ART LOGBOOK
Holly Lee
Joni Stern bach
https://clubofthewaves.com/surf-photographer/joni-sternbach/
Process: Joni Sternbach: Documenting Surfers on Tintype
https://intrepidcamera.co.uk/blog/joni-sternbach-tintype-surfers

TANGENTS
Wilson Tsang
The astronaut

Open/Endedness
bq 不 清
卡 式 錄 音 帶
CASSETTE TAPES
有 多 少 人 能 夠 一 直 沿 著 從 前
走 過 的 蜿 蜒 小 路 回 到
一 週 之 中 最 有 意 義 的 星 期 六
迎 接 星 期 天 的 到 來
How many of us can keep following the same
Winding path you walked before and go back
To the most meaningful day of the week, Saturday,
in anticipation of Sunday,
以 把 未 及 完 成 的 事 做 好 ?
衣 櫃 裡 的 衣 物 不 用 摺 了 ; 天 空 的
顏 色 從 未 轉 變 , 像 城 市 的 鏡 子
單 純 但 多 疑 , 尤 其 當 你 走 近 的 時 候
So that we can have the unfinished matters completed?
Clothes in the wardrobe don’t need to be folded; The colours
Of the sky have never changed, like the mirrors of the city,
Simple and full of suspicion, especially when you approach
你 總 是 往 前 望 但 又 同 時 顧 慮
左 右 , 像 每 次 駛 過 同 一 個
沒 有 交 通 燈 , 算 不 上 繁 忙 的 十 字 路 口
究 竟 那 些 喇 叭 聲 從 何 而 來 ?
And always look ahead but at the same time worry about
Left and right, as if driving through the same intersection that
Has no traffic lights and isn’t exactly busy,
So where do those horns come from?
凡 事 一 體 兩 面 , 建 築 物 的
外 牆 以 內 是 另 一 個 世 界
來 這 裡 的 人 每 週 都 一 樣 毫 無
表 情 , 除 了 反 的 時 候
Everything has two sides. Inside the exterior walls
Of this building is another world.
People come every week without
Expression, except when they flip.

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

The Photograph
coordinated by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Azam’s collection by Kamelia Pezeshki

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
that a hammer
can hold something
in place?
that Being
is the Taking
you don’t take?
then there’s a hot train
rattling beyond the woods
with foaming cars
and cigar smoke
of pecking at
his block of truth
start to form again
the way the sun
fills in shadow
his hands are open
this is how
a true day begins
as the wounds
of thinking
go down before
his prancing pulse
The Philosopher’s Cottage*
he is thinking by himself
behind shutters
with distance
outside
a pair of flaccid trees
beyond the windows
to attach
with anger
when ideas fail
which are what?
that rigidity
can deliver insight?
is it possible
the passengers
will stay bounded
and not speak
to one another?
and he calls out
like a bird
pulling threads
from his distemper
his disclosures
gleam in the moonlight
bright as the eyes of animals
passing
as the train
slows
the consequences
the open window
admits the hard breeze
of his rustling
licentiousness
he will write up
these notes
before the waters
recede
before he has to
go home
where there is little
of kindness
*There is admittedly some Heidegger here,
but not enough, I trust, to be oppressive.

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Old Sweater

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
France (March, 2022) – In preparation of
hibernation; I’ve been fixated on the last
glimmers of daylight. Always mindful that the
evening’s embrace arrives earlier than desired.
As the winds shift and winter season draws
closer, I am reminded that eventually the
perpetual spring will return.

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
A Balance in Wulai
A
bit of wind scampering,
that unabated kiting that had not yet known the shadow-tang of sorrow
and at flight with fear singing past the strain, a lullaby
and over the rickruck raucous,
the with and the other
and the continent of wirld,
the child and the chief bit into the night
the heart’s fugitive cartography
eye-to-eye in front of hamlet and hurt
glib lulling of evocation, an integument of riddled sympathy
face-to-face with the loneliness of senescent stomping-grounds
and the two of you left from the cliff through the curtains of the waterfall,
the cadence of enervated limbs caught between the rooster’s call and a wet kiss
the elder’s stone knife and warning once dismissed.
Yet
language lay lackadaisical on the hill remnant above Taipei
a body’s remains gapping contention, an arrow in its throat
the left divestiture, to the right hawk, crow and ghost
an inauspicious song looming along the spine of Yushan,
typhoon and rackle, the story a fault line,
a call rhymes up the hill
a grandmother’s clack, the crack in the teacup teetering,
gemstone ghosts and tatoo amore.
A
drop of water from the monkey’s bark springs the tree scattering,
Ama’s story or your own rests on the largest side
the black boar arched up, scampering and languishing in the weeds—
the tides howling fall below or the stones from the ancient gods laying to rest
knee, knife and crag along the velly and valley cloud eye, the lines on the back of her hands.
Are there fallen places above and below remaining, ever?
For: Tobie Openshaw, Sean Kaiteri, Michelle Kao and Amang Hung

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Study
paper, wire

Order this duo-cover Exhibition Catalogue at BLURB
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11309704-2k-4-0
64 pages, 8.5x11 inch, paperback, CAD$35 each
[2K 4.0] the fourth collaborative exhibition by Kai Chan
and Lee Ka-sing. Exhibition runs thru December 10, 2022,
at 50 Gladstone Avenue artsalon, Toronto
(visit by appointment mail@oceanpounds.com)
(on wall) 16 works (Pairing) by Kai Chan
(on table) an artist book by Lee Ka-sing
View the artist book:
[Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box] (for Holly)
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/10/sab.html

Kai Chan
Pairing ( 對 對 )
16 works from the
exhibition 2K 4.0

Paul & Mary
61 x 54 x 15 cm
balsa wood, maple, oil and acrylic paint

Karen & Frank
57 x 59 x 10 cm
balsa wood, maple, wire, acrylic paint

Sam & Nancy
30 x 10 x 2,5 cm
button, cider, balsa wood, maple, oil and acrylic paint
George & Nancy
82 x 27 x 2,5 cm
paper, bamboo, balsa wood, maple, acrylic paint

Maria & Paolo
38 x 29 x 9 cm
glass bead, button, wood, wire, plastic twist, acrylic paint
Alfred & Sam
23 x 44 x 11 cm
plastic twist, wire, acrylic paint

George & Sam
117 x 46 x 13 cm
cider, bamboo, silk thread, wire, dye
Kim & Ginger
gampi paper, wire, acrylic paint

Nancy & Sally
36 x 32 x 5 cm
balsa wood, rattan, dogwood, pine, acrylic paint
Linda & Linda
47 x 36 x 7 cm
canvas, wire, acrylic paint

Kenny & Pinky
43 x 29 x 19 cm
plastic, plastic twister, wire
Peter & Sammy
button, equisetum, wood, wire, acrylic paint

Ginger
13 x 21 x 7,5 cm
cotton and silk thread, wire, acrylic paint

Asafetida
19,5 x 8 x 5 cm
cotton and silk thread, wire, acrylic paint
Cayenne
13,5 x 7 x 6,5 cm
cotton and silk thread, wire, acrylic paint

Sumac
19,5 x 8 x 5 cm
cotton and silk thread, wire, acrylic paint

The galloping jelly pink horse with pea green spots
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