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<strong>MONDAY</strong><br />
<strong>ARTPOST</strong><br />
<strong>0227</strong>-<strong>2023</strong><br />
ISSN1918-6991<br />
<strong>MONDAY</strong><strong>ARTPOST</strong>.COM<br />
Columns by Artists and Writers<br />
Bob Black / bq / Cem Turgay / Fiona<br />
Smyth / Gary Michael Dault / Holly Lee<br />
/ Kai Chan / Kamelia Pezeshki / Lee Ka-sing<br />
/ Shelley Savor / Tamara Chatterjee / Wilson<br />
Tsang / + A vintage book by Tanizaki<br />
Junichiro: Diary of a Mad Old Man,<br />
with woodcuts by Shiko Munakata<br />
<strong>MONDAY</strong> <strong>ARTPOST</strong> published on Mondays. Columns by Artists and Writers. All Right Reserved. Published since 2002.<br />
An Ocean and Pounds publication. ISSN 1918-6991. email to: mail@oceanpounds.com
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The galloping jelly pink horse with pea green spots/ DOUBLE DOUBLE October edition 2022/<br />
Lee Ka-sing
George & Sam<br />
117 x 46 x 13 cm<br />
cider, bamboo, silk thread, wire, dye<br />
Holly Lee<br />
Nine-Years (2020)<br />
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Istanbul Postcards (2021)<br />
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The Air is like a Butterfly (2021)<br />
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Gary Michael Dault<br />
DOUBLE DOUBLE Box in a Valise a closecropped<br />
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DOUBLE DOUBLE Box in a Valise on-site<br />
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Kai Chan<br />
Twenty Twenty An exhibition by Kai Chan<br />
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2K 4.0 (Kai Chan + Lee Ka-sing)<br />
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Still Life Still A Book of Vessels (2022)<br />
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The Book of The Poem (2022)<br />
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The Nearby Faraway Small Paintings on<br />
Cardboard (2022)<br />
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Time Machine (2021) photographs by Lee<br />
Ka-sing, Haiku by Gary Michael Dault<br />
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Swan House (2021)<br />
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2K 4.0 / Kai Chan
Branching Out<br />
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Calendar Beauty Vintage Calendar posters<br />
from China<br />
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Libby Hague<br />
Libby Hague Watercolours<br />
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Tomio Nitto<br />
The Diary of Wonders<br />
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Fiona Smyth<br />
CHEEZ 456<br />
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Shelley Savor<br />
Mushrooms and Clouds but no Mushroom<br />
Clouds<br />
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Mushrooms and Clouds but no Mushroom Clouds/ Shelley Savor
Lee Ka-sing<br />
CODA (2020)<br />
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Diary of a Sunflower, Book Two (2022)<br />
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Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box (2022)<br />
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Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box<br />
Museum edition (2022)<br />
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“That Afternoon” on Mubi, a dialogue: Tsai<br />
Ming Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng (2022)<br />
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The Travelogue of a Bitter Melon (2022)<br />
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“Journeys of Leung Ping Kwan” (<strong>2023</strong>)<br />
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Time Machine/ Lee Ka-sing
<strong>ARTPOST</strong> contributors<br />
Cem Turgay lives and works as a photographer in<br />
Turkey.<br />
Fiona Smyth is a painter, illustrator, cartoonist and<br />
instructor in OCAD University's Illustration Program.<br />
For more than three decades, Smyth has made a name<br />
for herself in the local Toronto comic scene as well as<br />
internationally.<br />
http://fiona-smyth.blogspot.com<br />
Take-Me from the Archival Bin Program<br />
This is an art-give-away program for <strong>MONDAY</strong> <strong>ARTPOST</strong> readers and our PATREON members.<br />
Exhibition prints, work prints, test prints kept on file, from our previous Gallery, Studio or Print Program. You<br />
only have to pay a small flat fee for shipping and handling (US$18.00). Delivery will be via mail system only<br />
(anywhere). More about this program - https://oceanpounds.com/pages/takeme<br />
Gary Michael Dault lives in Canada and is noted for<br />
his art critics and writings. He paints and writes poetry<br />
extensively. In 2022, OCEAN POUNDS published two<br />
of his art notebooks in facsimile editions.<br />
Holly Lee lives in Toronto, where she continues to<br />
produce visual and literal work.<br />
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lee<br />
Kai Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in<br />
the sixties. He’s a notable multi-disciplinary artist who<br />
has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad.<br />
www.kaichan.art<br />
Kamelia Pezeshki is a photographer living in Toronto.<br />
She continues to use film and alternative processes to<br />
make photographs.<br />
www.kamelia-pezeshki.com<br />
Ken Lee is a poet and an architectural designer based<br />
in Toronto. He has been composing poetry in Chinese,<br />
and is only recently starting to experiment with writing<br />
English poetry under the pen name, “bq”.<br />
Lee Ka-sing, founder of OCEAN POUNDS, lives in<br />
Toronto. He writes with images, recent work mostly<br />
photographs in sequence, some of them were presented<br />
in the format of a book.<br />
www.leekasing.com<br />
Robert Black, born in California, is an award-winning<br />
poet and photographer currently based in Toronto.<br />
His work often deals with themes related to language,<br />
transformation, and disappearance.<br />
Shelley Savor lives in Toronto. She paints and draws<br />
with passion, focusing her theme on city life and urban<br />
living experiences.<br />
Tamara Chatterjee is a Toronto photographer who<br />
travels extensively to many parts of the world.<br />
Wilson Tsang is both a visual artist and a musician<br />
from Hong Kong. To date, he has published two art<br />
books for children and four indie music albums.<br />
Yam Lau, born in British Hong Kong, is an artist and<br />
writer based in Toronto; he is currently an Associate<br />
Professor at York University. Lau’s creative work<br />
explores new expressions and qualities of space,<br />
time and the image. He is represented by Christie<br />
Contemporary.<br />
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Leaving Taichung<br />
Station<br />
Bob Black<br />
winter: i<br />
our bodies together as they pull against the weathered air, as they creak and pivot and bend toward<br />
small openings of warmth and shuttle because they and we shall disappear and to remember that<br />
caged or set lose, our bodies the carriage of our hearts, the lantern glass upon which our thoughts<br />
and ruminations and divestments radiate, our spirit writ large and wilding against the skin and<br />
bone barriers. Our bodies together an ache-laughed temple not because they or we are beautiful<br />
but because in their forlorn trappings all and every part of us, together, is magnified there, all that<br />
is contained within us, heliography and rhyme pressed hard and knocking against our disappearing<br />
time, sung out and spreading. Our winter bodies together. Cadence, whelp, tongue-touch and rhyme.<br />
when the winter softens I hunger you<br />
when the winter softens, and sound and trickling light swifts beneath the crackling trees growing<br />
restless in their defrosting, their thawed hearts reaching seaward and netting our hopes and oneiric<br />
chatting. My ruggedized heart brushed clean, awaiting the tone of your toes scribbling in the sand.<br />
Wavering and light scrolled and<br />
when the winter softens, the trees, stretch wide beneath the licking sky, dropped light between the<br />
snow<br />
dropped white between the falling bronchial arteries<br />
life vaping upon white, snow scribbled air breaking open past the dunes, a traveler, you away<br />
westward and green and I am coming, in adream, the algebra from me to you<br />
when the winter softens language burling, an interlocking warms the winter<br />
if not us then who, there alone<br />
when the winter softens, you
Greenwood<br />
Kai Chan<br />
After “My Brother’s Book” by Maurice Sendak<br />
24 x 31 x 8 cm, wood, masonite, wire, paper, acrylic paint
ARCHIVE<br />
Lee Ka-sing<br />
Leong Ka Tai 梁 家 泰 (1984), the last day of 陳 泗 記 . Photograph in the picture - 8x10 gelatin silver print<br />
(opposite page) Leong Ka Tai 梁 家 泰 (circa 1981), 4x5 gelatin silver print, from Holly’s contact print file<br />
“Pictures of Friends, Artists and People I Know” series.<br />
Archives from https://archive.leekasing.com and https://c.leekasing.com
From the Notebooks<br />
(2010-<strong>2023</strong>)<br />
Gary Michael Dault<br />
From the Notebooks, 2010-<strong>2023</strong><br />
Number 167: Rabbit with Deluge (circa 1979)<br />
At my age you lose people. It’s inevitable. Apples keep<br />
falling from the withering Tree of Life. It’s normal, natural and<br />
no less painful for all that. Almost all the artists I once knew<br />
and loved have now died. The most recent of these losses was<br />
that of my friend, painter and musician Mendelson Joe (Birrell<br />
Josef Mendelson) who died on February7, <strong>2023</strong>. I used to buy his<br />
paintings whenever I could. I wrote enthusiastic articles about his<br />
work. I also wrote an introduction to his book Joe’s Politicians in<br />
2008 , a collection of gloriously vulgar paintings featuring<br />
all-too-explicit depictions of Joe’s least favourite public figures as<br />
literal assholes.<br />
Joe loved to make postcards of his paintings. I have a big<br />
collection of them. The one reproduced here was originally<br />
titled “Mendelson Meets Rabbit,” but for reasons I can no longer<br />
remember, I rather perversely sluiced the scene, sometime later,<br />
with a lot of white paint, providing a tsunami-like inundation<br />
about to engulf Joe’s poor little bunny. Joe was suddenly gone from<br />
the painting. Now, his being actually gone, the pure white rabbit<br />
has been transformed, for me, into a radiant, sacrificial figure<br />
emblematic of M. Joe himself. Joe being blindingly pure of heart.
TANGENTS<br />
Wilson Tsang<br />
the Actionist
Open/Endedness<br />
bq 不 清<br />
斯 滕 迪 格 月 曆<br />
STENDIG CALENDAR<br />
像 簷 口 , 它 們<br />
懂 得 只 朝 一 個 方 向<br />
邁 進 :<br />
橫 的 和 重 複 的<br />
他 們 不 放 棄<br />
Like cornices, they<br />
Know to advance only<br />
In one direction:<br />
Horizontal and repetitive.<br />
They are no quitters.<br />
風 吹 碰 它 , 往 下<br />
便 著 涼 了<br />
而 我 們 凍 僵 了 的 腳<br />
Wind hits it and comes<br />
Down with a cold.<br />
And our feet are frozen<br />
像 外 邊 一 個 個 雪 人<br />
最 終 消 失 於 這 片<br />
冬 霧 之 中 , 它 是 一 個<br />
不 黑 暗 的 時 代<br />
相 反 那 裡 過 分 光 亮 與 巨 大 以 致<br />
眼 睛 都 緊 緊 閉 上 了<br />
Like snowmen at the front<br />
Only to vanish into this<br />
Winter fog, an era<br />
That isn’t dark<br />
But is too bright and big, where<br />
Eyes tightly shut.
The Photograph<br />
coordinated by<br />
Kamelia Pezeshki<br />
Still life by Kamelia Pezeshki
CHEEZ<br />
Fiona Smyth
Travelling Palm<br />
Snapshots<br />
Tamara Chatterjee<br />
USA (September, 2016) – I exited the subway<br />
on my way to the ICP to immerse myself in<br />
the galleries. I spent the majority of the day<br />
wandering in and out of some phenomenal<br />
spaces. Eventually, ending up in a cafe,<br />
geeking out on camera talk and world events<br />
with an interesting character from overseas.<br />
Before getting back on and getting lost in the<br />
famed tangle of subway lines.
Caffeine Reveries<br />
Shelley Savor<br />
They’re Chopping Down Trees
https://oceanpounds.com New at Poetry section -<br />
New Look. More Content<br />
Gary Michael Dault: FIFTEEN HAIKU MOONS
Poem a Week<br />
Gary Michael Dault<br />
Bone Ladder<br />
(For Vera Frenkel)<br />
his bone ladder<br />
creaked against the wall<br />
he aged with every step<br />
by the top rung<br />
he was a tattered flag<br />
tossing damp rags<br />
back to some invisible<br />
throng
ProTesT<br />
Cem Turgay
ART LOGBOOK<br />
Holly Lee<br />
London Fashion Week <strong>2023</strong> (scroll down for video 3:03)<br />
https://www.britishfashioncouncil.co.uk/London-Fashion-Week<br />
London Fashion Week: The styles and stars in pictures<br />
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64717317<br />
London Fashion Week <strong>2023</strong>: All the Best Runway Looks (by Kevin Huynh and Alexander Fisher)<br />
https://www.wsj.com/story/new-york-fashion-week-<strong>2023</strong>-see-highlights-from-the-runways-27e72312
A vintage book by<br />
Tanizaki Junichiro:<br />
Diary of a Mad Old<br />
Man, with woodcuts by<br />
Shiko Munakata<br />
(Lee Ka-sing)
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