MONDAY ARTPOST 0410-2023

MONDAY 

ARTPOST 

0410-2023 

ISSN1918-6991 

MONDAYARTPOST.COM 

Columns by Artists and Writers 

Bob Black / bq / Fiona Smyth / Gary 

Michael Dault / Holly Lee / Kai Chan 

/ Kamelia Pezeshki/ Lee Ka-sing / 

Shelley Savor / Tamara Chatterjee / 

Wilson Tsang / + Re-visit: Tomio 

Nitto (photographs by Lee Ka-sing) 

/ OP edition (Frank Lei) 

MONDAY ARTPOST published on Mondays. Columns by Artists and Writers. All Right Reserved. Published since 2002. 

An Ocean and Pounds publication. ISSN 1918-6991. email to: mail@oceanpounds.com

Frank Lei 

(1962-2022) 

Sleeping City series 1995-1997 

Fibre-based gelatin silver print 

Number 13 (of twenty editions), OP Edition 

Signed, numbered and titled on verso 

This photograph is available at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/products/frank-lei-230409 

As the practice of collecting photographs picked up 

steam by 1994, the push motivated us to establish 

a system for people to interact, exchange, acquire 

and collect photographs. We set up The Original 

Photograph Club that year and created a print program 

called the OP Print Program. Ka-sing and I co-curated 

the project and attended all administrative and 

organizing work. It would be a quarterly program, each 

quarter of the year would feature ten photographers’ 

work. All participants would be required to contribute 

an image with 20 editions, printed in the size of 8 by 

10 inches. These prints we referred to as OP Editions. 

(DISLOCATION 1992-1999, and Beyond. [The OP 

Print Program and OP Editions, 1994-1999], Holly 

Lee)

50 Gladstone Avenue artsalon 

April 2023 On Table / On Wall

50 Gladstone Avenue artsalon exhibition in April 

On Table: Open-shelves of over 40 

titles published by OCEAN POUNDS 

from 2020 to 2022 

On Wall: Hong Kong Photographs, 

from the collection of Lee Ka-sing 

and Holly Lee (Hong Kong in the 50s 

to 70s, fibre-based silver photographs 

printed in the 90s by the artists) 

Visit by appointment (mail@oceanpounds.com) 

If you are not in Toronto, we welcome you to browse 

these read-on-line flip-books: 

Most of these publications are available in read-on-line flip-books (for PATREON member), 

Book-on-demand Paperbacks, and PDF ebooks (downloads). More information: 

books.oceanpounds.com 

nganchuntung.yesterdayhongkong.com/2023/04/n.html 

yauleung.yesterdayhongkong.com/2023/04/y.html 

makfung.yesterdayhongkong.com/2023/04/m.html

Leaving Taichung 

Station 

Bob Black 

A Fragment, simply 

This poem is very simple 

it could be about food 

it could be about the sky 

it could be about two nations 

but I digress 

it could be about you 

Fingers ink the dark map to the world and we pencil in the rain 


it could be about disappearance 

it could be about grief 

it could be about remembering 

but I digress 


A sentence rivers as long as the curve of your index finger stretching in the morning toward the green 

hills tongued by fox and fog 


it could be about entering the world through violence 

it could be about exiting language with reluctance 

it could be about living between offer and relinquishment 

but I digress 


The bitten smile of the sky’s dark morning eyes made slender by touch 


we surrender over bright things in the distance 

hearts tumbling down the ridge of the canyon 

promises damp as the trunk’s cambium 

but I digress from this uncanny place 

in fact 

it is you.

TANGENTS 

Wilson Tsang 

Blus as a Monk

From the Notebooks 

(2010-2023) 

Gary Michael Dault 

From the Notebooks, 2010-2023 

Number 173:: My Mendicant Eye (My Drifting Eye, 

My Satellite Eye), November 14, 2020. 

Gary Michael Dault’s work and books at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/gary-michael-dault

On Paper 

Lee Ka-sing 

verso 

Haiku, untitled (2021) 

Mixed media: pigment inkjet on paper, acrylic medium 

5.5x16.5 inch, signed on front and verso. Unique.

Open/Endedness 

bq 不清 

剪影 

Silhouettes 

像一個城市長自 

同一個城市 

Like a city that is grown from 

The very same city 

像碎浪中的一片樹梢 

不懂沉沒 

Like being in choppy waves, a branch 

Doesn’t know the way to submerge 

像坐船的人 

不願入睡 —— 

Like passengers on a cruise ship 

Who are unwilling to fall asleep— 

你說你已經不是 

嬰兒了 

You say you are no longer 

A baby, and 

不需要童謠也能平靜 

下來 

Don’t need lullabies to soothe 

Yourself 

誠實的人在飛機上 

而穩定是靠不斷上揚 

Honest people are aboard a plane 

And stability comes from the ascent 

而不是不增不減的在平坦 

路上止息 

And not from the non-fluctuating flattening 

Way one takes breaks along 

滿載而歸的無奈 

出現於床頭熄燈前一刻 

Frustration from achieving the goals 

Is felt right before the night light is turned off

Caffeine Reveries 

Shelley Savor 

Spring Rain 

Shelley Savor’s work and book at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/Shelley-Savor

CHEEZ 

Fiona Smyth 

Fiona Smyth’s work and book at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/fiona-smyth

Travelling Palm 

Snapshots 

Tamara Chatterjee 

Canada (December, 2012) – For years; I 

would randomly see Kevin the neighbour. 

Framed in his window; Kevin provided 

that last sovereign state of calm, that last 

meditative fresh breath before passing through 

the gates of Narnia into a glorious haze of 

chocolate. Serendipitously, seeing the furry 

fluff next door was always a great omen to start 

my day.

ART LOGBOOK 

Holly Lee 

Tao of Glass 360 | Manchester International Festival (7:23) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TrYu9aH9Wo

Poem a Week 

Gary Michael Dault 

after many 

fluttering days 

of heat 

the animals 

groping with hope 

Pitch Dark Noah’s Ark* 

pitch dark 

Noah’s ark 

like a crescent 

moon 

lying on her 

back 

black water 

polished 

like a table top 

the animals 

mutter around 

its fifty decks 

watching 

for a breakdown 

of seeds and wheat 

something landlocked 

to eat 

sse the dove 

come wafting 

onto Noah’s palm 

their need 

forms a great wheel 

beside the sea 

each creature 

yearning for 

its own dove 

whereas 

all that comes 

is a watery sun 

* This poem was written in pencil in the back of a book during a 

power outage in the afternoon of Wednesday afternoon, April 5. The loss of 

power allowed me to think a bit about real darkness and how little we ever 

have of it. 

I was also trying to imagine how black Noah’s vast ark must have seemed, 

surging through the rainy, moonless nights, a huge floating town, barely 

distinguishable from the encircling blackness everywhere.

Greenwood 

Kai Chan 

Sibelius 

29 x 13 x 4 cm, mahogany, Japanese maple, ink, acrylic paint, wax 

Kai Chan’s work and books at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/kai-chan

The Photograph 

coordinated by 

Kamelia Pezeshki 

Amphitrite in Versailles by Sandra C. Davis 

Cyanotype on fabric

Re-visit: Tomio Nitto 

Lee Ka-sing 

(twenty diptych 

photographs)

March 20, 2023

Diptych Diary 20230320-1545-20230320-1544




















DOUBLE DOUBLE February/ March edition 2023 

女那禾多 DISLOCATION (1992-1999), and Beyond 

340 pages, 8x10 inch, ebook and hardcover editions 

Browse a read-on-line complimentary copy 

https://books.leekasing.com/1992/01/dislocation.html 

THE LIFE OF A PUBLICATION, written by Holly Lee 

(the main article in 21 segments) 

• It began with Lee Ka-sing’s two photo columns in the mid-eighties 

• Seeded by a studio promotional publication: WORKS MAGAZINE (1988-89) 

• And it began, with a transparent and translucent journey (NûNaHéDuo ZERO and 

GLASS issues) 

• The first year 

• NûNaHéDuo 1992-1995. 48 issues, 4 annuals and an index issue 

• Fair Deal. A playground at the backyard 

• Free-wheeling and Seeding 

• The OP Print Program and OP Editions (1994-1999) 

• The second stage (1996-1998), a new format 

• The idea of Three: Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan 

• DIGI zine, a side track 

• OP fotogallery and NCP–the NûNaHéDuo Centre of Photography 

• A tale of the other city, the OP fotogallery in Toronto (2000-2005) 

• Closing of the second stage of NNHD 1999 

• This side towards lens, FOTO POST and ebooks 

• DISLOCATION as an ebook, Volume 14 

• Landscape in flux. The Missing Volume 15, Geography issue 

• The Second Life of DISLOCATION 

• Recapturing time 

• Thirty years 

• The Unfinished. Hong Kong Streets issue

Leads to the Books published 

by OCEAN POUNDS 

DISLOCATION (1992-1999), and Beyond 

books.oceanpounds.com/2023/04/dislocation.html 

Poetic Liaison 

books.oceanpounds.com/2023/02/poetic-liaison.html 

City Mirage Snow 

http://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/12/cms.html 

The Painter The Photographer The Alchemist 

http://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/12/ppa.html 

The galloping jelly pink horse with pea green spots 

http://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/10/phgs.html 

Reality Irreality Augmented Reality 

http://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/10/rar.html 

The Book The Reader The Keeper 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/09/dd202208.html 

Hana Picnic Stones 


Terrain Little Red Riding Hood Rosetta 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/03/dd202203.htm 

Donkey camera and auld lang syne 


The Fountain the Shop the Rhythmic Train 


Nine-Years 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2020/02/ny.html 

2K 4.0 (Kai Chan + Lee Ka-sing) 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/10/2k40.html 

Calendar Beauty Vintage Calendar posters from 

China 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2020/03/cb.html 

Libby Hague Watercolours 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/11/lhw.html 

The Diary of Wonders 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/10/dw.html 

CHEEZ 456 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/05/c456.html 

Mushrooms and Clouds but no Mushroom Clouds 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/09/mcmc.html 

CODA 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/12/coda.html 

Diary of a Sunflower, Book Two 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/12/ds.html 

ARTPOST contributors 

Cem Turgay lives and works as a photographer in 

Turkey. 

Fiona Smyth is a painter, illustrator, cartoonist and 

instructor in OCAD University's Illustration Program. 

For more than three decades, Smyth has made a name 

for herself in the local Toronto comic scene as well as 

internationally. 

http://fiona-smyth.blogspot.com 

Gary Michael Dault lives in Canada and is noted for 

his art critics and writings. He paints and writes poetry 

extensively. In 2022, OCEAN POUNDS published two 

of his art notebooks in facsimile editions. 

Holly Lee lives in Toronto, where she continues to 

produce visual and literal work. 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lee 

Kai Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 

the sixties. He’s a notable multi-disciplinary artist who 

has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. 

www.kaichan.art 

Kamelia Pezeshki is a photographer living in Toronto. 

She continues to use film and alternative processes to 

make photographs. 

www.kamelia-pezeshki.com 

Windmills Fields and Marina 

http://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/07/wmf.html 

Island Peninsula Cape 

http://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/05/blog-post.html 

The Fence the Garden the Connoisseur 


Istanbul Postcards 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/07/ip.html 

The Air is like a Butterfly 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/07/tab.html 

Eighty Two Photographs 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/10/82p.html 

Time Machine 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/12/tm.html 

Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/10/sa.html 

Ken Lee is a poet and an architectural designer based 

in Toronto. He has been composing poetry in Chinese, 

and is only recently starting to experiment with writing 

English poetry under the pen name, “bq”. 

Lee Ka-sing, founder of OCEAN POUNDS, lives in 

Toronto. He writes with images, recent work mostly 

photographs in sequence, some of them were presented 

in the format of a book. 

www.leekasing.com 

Still Life Still A Book of Vessels 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/09/bv.html 

The Book of The Poem 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/08/bp.html 

The Nearby Faraway Small Paintings on Cardboard 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/09/small-paintings-on-cardboard.html 

DOUBLE DOUBLE Box in a Valise a close-cropped 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2020/05/ddb-cc.html 

DOUBLE DOUBLE Box in a Valise on-site 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2020/05/ddb-os.html 

Twenty Twenty An exhibition by Kai Chan 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/09/tt.html 

Songs from the Acid-free Paper Box 

Museum edition 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/10/sab.html 

“That Afternoon” on Mubi, a dialogue: Tsai Ming 

Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/11/ta.html 

The Travelogue of a Bitter Melon 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/11/tbm.html 

Swan House 

https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/12/swanhouse.html 

“Journeys of Leung Ping Kwan” 

http://books.oceanpounds.com/2023/01/pk.html 

Robert Black, born in California, is an award-winning 

poet and photographer currently based in Toronto. 

His work often deals with themes related to language, 

transformation, and disappearance. 

Shelley Savor lives in Toronto. She paints and draws 

with passion, focusing her theme on city life and urban 

living experiences. 

Tamara Chatterjee is a Toronto photographer who 

travels extensively to many parts of the world. 

Wilson Tsang is both a visual artist and a musician 

from Hong Kong. To date, he has published two art 

books for children and four indie music albums. 

Yam Lau, born in British Hong Kong, is an artist and 

writer based in Toronto; he is currently an Associate 

Professor at York University. Lau’s creative work 

explores new expressions and qualities of space, 

time and the image. He is represented by Christie 

Contemporary.

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