MONDAY ARTPOST 1212-2022

MONDAY
ARTPOST
1212-2022
ISSN1918-6991
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Columns by Artists and Writers
Cem Turgay / Fiona Smyth /
Gary Michael Dault / Holly Lee
/ Kai Chan / Kamelia Pezeshki/
Shelley Savor / Tamara Chatterjee /
Wilson Tsang / Yam Lau /
+ Original Sisters: Portraits of
Tenacity and Courage (Anita Kunz)
MONDAY ARTPOST published on Mondays. Columns by Artists and Writers. All Right Reserved. Published since 2002.
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Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
India (December, 2016) – I was excited to
return to Varanasi; on my second visit we
arranged several boat rides, the first to view
the evening Aarti spectacle from beyond the
sacred shore. It was the first Hindu ritual
that I have encountered that felt more like
watching a highly choreographed dance
performance, versus a communal religious
prayer (at the steps of mother Ganga, no less).
In the end the cold and humid boat ride at
twilight was the peak of the evening mission.

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

From the Notebooks
(2010-2022)
Gary Michael Dault
From the Notebooks, 2010-2022.
Number 157: Swan Lake (July 15, 2022): “When a swan is winter all over, but the beak is like autumn leaves”--
Velemir Khlebnikov:

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Study
paper, wire

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
A Glass of Water
When I was young and consolable
and sometimes ill in bed
there was comfort in the clink of ice cubes
grinding, bobbing together in a glass of water.
Now that I am older and not so easily comforted
a glass of water is not some vast Greenland sea
edged and grating with icebergs, a seascape
too pure for microbes,
but merely two gasses in a glass
a volume and a mass.
Still of course a bounded seascape,
but above the meniscus membrane of this
treacherous
ocean’s circular surface there now blows
a typhoon of instability,
with molecules of H20 lurching free
from the mother sea
panting upwards into sublimation,
and aliens from the air
tincturing the wellspring water,
pressing their runny noses against the glass,
looking out at me with the flat nonseeing eyes
specially adapted for all organisms
untroubled by a conscience.
Now only one thing is for certain:
you cannot drink from the same glass of
water twice.
********************************************
Note: This poem originally appeared in The
Literary Review of Canada in April of 2001.

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

TANGENTS
Wilson Tsang
The Door

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Heading Out

… 談 笑 間 …
Yam Lau
A text message to a friend while standing in front of a Warhol painting
at the Art Institute of Chicago around 2018
“... I think this is one of my favourite paintings in the world. The speed and
the ease... the sudden appearance of the image... the easy delivery...as if the
image is not made, it just “happened”.
A Warhol is a Warhol. It is a brand. But some Warhol is just so good and
so much better than the other Warhol paintings. This one, for example,
is quite small. And I stood in front of it and looked… and looked…It is a
mystery.
What I cannot show you are the bits of thick texture. It may be due to that
fifth, or whatever number pull of the silk screen when the ink is drying and
start to clogg the mesh. The image is embodied with a strange painterly
materiality. It is so beautiful and magical. No struggle, no battle, and no
need to enlist so much doubt to prove anything (Gerhard Richter). It is,
and it is what it is, and it happened in an instant. It is literally electrifying.
I stood in front of it for a long time. Warhol is great but this one is a super
great Warhol. It is THIS unique pull of the screen, off registration and the
size of the work. The iterations before and after would not have worked so
well. Just this one.”

The Photograph
coordinated by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Sun and shore by Peter Friedrichsen
Cyanotype on wood panel

ART LOGBOOK
Holly Lee
{from Edwin Kwan)
Tom Collins: My Barber Photography Journey
https://www.timcollins.nl/barber-life?utm_medium=theshot.wed.rd.20221207.smartflab.436.1&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=email-2022

Anita Kunz is a Canadian-born artist and
illustrator living in Toronto. Her work has
been published and exhibited internationally
for four decades. Her work has been featured
regularly in and on covers of many magazines,
including Time, Rolling Stones, and the New
York Times Magazines. She has illustrated
covers for the New Yorker and more than
fifty book jackets. Kunz has been inducted
into the Society of Illustrators stamp. She has
been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada
(QC), and has received the Queen Elizabeth II
Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Anita Kunz
Original Sisters:
Portraits of Tenacity
and Courage
The portraits in the collection of “Original
Sisters: Portraits of Tenacity and Courage”
bring the accomplishments of trailblazers,
leaders, mentors, and rebels together in
a series of paintings that embody Anita’s
approachable and engaging style. The entire
Original Sisters collection, with 365 portraits,
is on public display at TAP Centre for
Creativity, London, Ontario, from November
3rd, 2022 to January 4th, 2023.

Hilma Af Klint
Artist, mystic whose abstract paintings were influenced by spiritualism
Hypatia
Mathematician, astronomer and philosopher

Marie Skłodowska–Curie
Physicist and chemist pioneering research on radioactivity
Maud Wagner
Circus performer and the first female tattoo artist in the United States

Angela Davis
Political activist, philosopher and author
Angela Ruiz Robles
Inventor of the mechanical
encyclopedia (precursor to the e-book)

Anna Akhmatova
Poet
Anna Mae Aquash
Mi’kmaq activist

Anonymous
The first artists of the human species were likely female
Augusta Savage
Educator, social activist and portrait sculptor

Caroline Earle White
Animal protectionist
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Astronomer, astrophysicist

Temple Grandin
Animal behavior expert who is on the autism spectrum
Vivian Maier
Street photographer who was discovered
and celebrated only after her death

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