MONDAY ARTPOST 0116-2023

MONDAY
ARTPOST
0116-2023
ISSN1918-6991
MONDAYARTPOST.COM
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 /
Yam Lau + Day of watching snow
(Edwin Kwan)
MONDAY ARTPOST published on Mondays. Columns by Artists and Writers. All Right Reserved. Published since 2002.
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Lee Ka-sing
CODA (2020)
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Diary of a Sunflower, Book Two (2022)
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Eighty Two Photographs (2021)
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Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box
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“That Afternoon” on Mubi, a dialogue: Tsai
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“Journeys of Leung Ping Kwan” (2023)
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Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box/ Lee Ka-sing

Holly Lee
Nine-Years (2020)
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Istanbul Postcards (2021)
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The Air is like a Butterfly (2021)
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Gary Michael Dault
Still Life Still A Book of Vessels (2022)
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The Book of The Poem (2022)
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Time Machine (2021) photographs by Lee
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The Diary of Wonders
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CHEEZ 456
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Mushrooms and Clouds but no Mushroom
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Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Drifting in the Grey

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
More Snow
new snow fills up the backyard
trees bend under it
cats keep to the shoveled paths
the deep-frozen car
is mounded
like a polar bear
icicles three feet long
glisten from the eavestroughs
they will fall like swords
when the sun comes out
it’s hard to picture
bulbs
under the snow
snowdrops and crocuses
ticking like alarm clocks

TANGENTS
Wilson Tsang
Night Watch

Night Owl Sonata
Holly Lee
Thirty One
(Reading the photographs of Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova in the book
Floridas)
I didn’t know Walker Evans also drew. I celebrate his photographs as much as
Anastasia’s. Is pink the colour of Florida? Seems authentic, but I also saw blue,
rusty red, Tyrian purple and all the others. His photographs and paintings, in
black and white, muted blue, green, gray and brown; hers, a kaleidoscope of
rainbow splashes. How her Barge Reflection reminds me of a Xinjiang scarf, the
mirage of a metropolis, and all the green pastures, rising. She always gives more;
her density and vibrancy leave me in awe. Which comes first, her eyes, her heart,
or her camera. I once saw Evan’s picture of a Resort Photographer, she and her
woman sitter, her props an ocean liner, short palm trees, two or three pelicans, and
an alligator. She bent down, with both hands securing the tripod, she inspected
the horizon, the pristine blue water of the Gulf of Mexico. Anastasia’s alligator
in Gatorama baths in a pink brick; blue-tiled pool of water jetting out from a
tube. From Evan’s ladder to Anastasia’s ladder, from John Rybovich & Sons to
Michael Rybovich & Sons, from 1960 to 2021. In the rendezvous in Florida, she
encountered the American south, signs and letters, light, patterns, layer by layer.
Her viewfinder finds more–there is order in chaos, and chaos in order. Is this
delusion or reality? In this picture of a dome house, where a horizontal flag flying
on its pole, she spotted the upside-down America.

… 談 笑 間 …
Yam Lau

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Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
USA (November, 2000) – We arrived at
Monument Valley via the Valley of the gods;
as the glowing light of a majestic sunset
had begun to settle against the horizon,
showcasing the monumental buttes in full
glory. We spent the night in the lodge, before
meeting with our Navajo guide first thing
the following morning. She navigated us
towards numerous mythical sites including;
the Mittens, the Ear of the Wind, the Eye
of the Sun and the Three Sisters. All much
more magical under a dusting of snow, which
unfortunately evaporated with the midday
sun.

Open/Endedness
bq 不 清
他 也 戴 墨 眼 鏡
HE ALSO WORE SUNGLASSES
他 們 需 要 約 翰 阿 什 貝 利
為 我 昨 晚 夢 中 的
一 宗 命 案 協 助 調 查
John Ashbery was wanted
For a homicide case
Last night In my dream.
在 警 察 登 門 之 前
我 沿 火 災 逃 生 樓 梯
來 到 他 的 住 所
Before the cops arrived,
Through the fire escape
I got to his apartment.
他 不 在 , 事 實 上
他 已 經 好 久
不 在 那 裡 住 了
He wasn’t there, in fact
He hadn’t been there for
Some time now.
之 後 在 紀 念 品 商 店 我 遇 見 他
全 身 穿 著 白 色 衣 裳 , 甚 至
戴 著 一 對 雪 白 的 手 套
Then at a souvenir shop, I saw him
All dressed in white. He was
Even wearing a pair of white gloves.
「 為 什 麼 要 把 我 的 詩
印 在 冰 箱 磁 貼 上 呢 ?」 他 問
「 因 為 我 們 需 要 你 啊 」 我 回 答
“Why would they put my poetry
On fridge magnets?” He asked.
“Because you are wanted.” I replied.

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

From the Notebooks
(2010-2022)
Gary Michael Dault
From the Notebooks, 2010-2023
Number 162: Putin’s Moon (January 8, 2023)

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Study
wood, papier maché, wire, acrylic paint, dye

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
萬 里 (10,000 Li)
“Years staining from the inside out.”—Jenny Xie
“There is, you see, no shortage of gain and loss.”—Diana Khoi Nguyen
Your fingers ink the world regardless of station and tributaries
the stains you left behind in your exiting
the turnstile of your voice
the paw marks damp in the earth
the ones followed, ineluctably
an abacus of flight.

Your fingers ink the world newspaper brief
the paper cup of fried chicken grease along the footsteps, ascending
toward a corner of Feng Chia’s cacophonous night of bodies
lit of traffic love and baobao managing thumb grease and lips bright, alight
neon toward our disappearance, hearts and ambition
pen the clatter of porcelain, upended bowls, spattered napkins, keeling sputters
abrasions made right by the sharing of looks over food-stalls and boot’d love
the barking in this negotiated night, animal innards and teen dreams awkward, beibei
luminous in the abacus of flight.
Your fingers ink the world turning, left
the balcony you left behind in your upending
to shift through hickory and honey-comb’d light
to unseat a wobbly head and regain the recumbent, flickering heart
to reclaim the light in the lantern light window
to unease someone alone and carving out a memory, erase
to let the trip disappear completely, an evaporated stain on the lily and lace
the paw marks damp in the earth
the ones dreamed up before let loose late in the afternoon, the lines along the laundry
a man walking in circles in the nude around a box,
the distance we once imagine for the entirety of our life, ineffable.
love, the name we shaped with our tongues before departing once and forever stained
the countries we drew upon, the rhymes we spoke, the food we shared, the nights dimpled
unamended and spoken once again from the inside out, we were the gain and the loss
life’s rich demand and two organs, two mouths and two bands of recumbent helix and two
words,
the two of us added up into two characters and infinite stories, composed of ink strokes
multitudinous and clear
beads of repining fingers over the pinewood that smoked the squid, the ink rending our
mouths:
萬 里
as the tenderness of the stars falls away.
For: three poets of grief, Jenny Xie, Diana Khoi Nguyen and Wan-lin Yang
Our fingers ink the world, the abacus of light
the time it took to cross the ocean from this life to the next
10,000 books and 10,000 words and 10,000 moments and 10,000 chambers of grief

ART LOGBOOK
Holly Lee
Samuel Fosso, at The Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
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The Photograph
coordinated by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Body of One, Architecture of Self by Peggy Taylor Reid, 2019-20
Mixed media collage over photo image transfer

Edwin Kwan
Day of watching snow
( 看 雪 的 日 子 )
4 photographs
(2023)

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