MONDAY ARTPOST 2023-0605

MONDAY 

ARTPOST 

2023-0605 

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 / Lee Ka-sing / Shelley 

Savor / Tamara Chatterjee / 

Tomio Nitto / Wilson Tsang / 

+ OP Edition: Leung Chi Wo 

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ReAttendance Of Space 

an exhibition by Bill Grigsby 

Passionate engagement and spatial relationship incidentally 

arranged with more left turns than a doorknob! Words and pictures 

to look at. “An Allegory of The Spiritual Adventure of The Full Conscious 

Person Into Modern Life“ Tennesse Williams, Dec 4, 1949 

50 Gladstone Avenue artsalon in Toronto 

On view from May 27 to June 17, 2023 

visit by appointment (mail@oceanpounds.com)

Hong Kong Memories 

a suite of vintage inkjet prints 

an exhibition by Holly Lee 

June 24 to July 29, 2023 

50 Gladstone Avenue artsalon 

visit by appointment 

mail@oceanpounds.com

Leung Chi Wo 

Untitled 

8x10 inch, Gelatin Silver Print 

Number 19/20, OP Edition 

Signed and numbered on verso 

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

Poem a Week 

Gary Michael Dault 

Cushions or Luxury’s End 

cushions 

under our thighs 

conduits 

at our feet 

necklaces 

of bone and grind 

of sour skin and spiky rind 

sneezing 

at our neighbors 

dancing 

on the heat 

bracelets 

made of earth and seed 

ringlets of erotic need 

lying in the street

Diptych Diary 

Lee Ka-sing

Caffeine Reveries 

Shelley Savor 

City Storm Guardian 

Shelley Savor’s work and book at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/Shelley-Savor

Leaving Taichung 

Station 

Bob Black 

阿飛正傳 

1989 — 2023 

In April of 1989, I was living in Providence, Rhode Island and working as a speech writer. I was 

23 and the world was abloom where everything seemed possible, the books to read, the poems and 

stories to write, the lips to kiss, the stories to swallow, the lives to enter and the places to go. At 23, 

everything was infinite and possible, everything but death. 

I had moved to Providence to support my youngest brother financially after having enrolled in the 

Rhode Island School of Design to study painting. At the time, I had fallen in love with a painter from 

Korea whose stories about her relationship with her high school English teacher drew me into a world 

I could not have imagined at the time and though my own life had been an interesting and peripatetic 

one, I yearned for the world away from the usa. 

1988 had been a tinderbox for flight: I’d watched with my brother the Korean Olympics in October 

and hungered for Asia, not having been back to Taiwan or Hong Kong since I was a kid; I started rereading 

everything by 北島 whose poetry I had fallen in love with in university and whom I had met. 

I knew he’d return to China with his wife and daughter and that he had worked on a petition calling 

for the release of pro-democracy activists like Wei Jingsheng. 

I also lost my heart to Gong Li in Red Sorghum and then watched one Chinese film after another: 

Yellow Earth, King of the Children, The Horse Thief and others and I realized I had to go to China 

and so I applied to teach English in Beijing and was accepted and started to plan to leave Providence 

and my job as a speech writer and re-learn Mandarin and then came May, my birthday, and then the 

天安門廣場的絕食四君子 (Tiananmen Four Gentlemen Hunger Strike) and then like so many of 

us watched on CNN the horror that was unfolding in front of us and my heart sank and my life was 

turned upside down. 

Death and destruction had come. Spring was gone. 

The tanks and the brave man who stood in front of them risked everything and the world changed and 

thousands of lives were lost and China and the people were never the same again.

My appointment was rescinded and I stayed in Providence as history fell apart: first China…and then 

the Caribbean and then Poland and Czechoslovakia and then Berlin…and history began to fall, brick 

by brick and all but in China, it seemed as if the urgency of democracy and human rights were at the 

fore and a year later I left for Prague to teach English to students who were older than I was, some of 

whom hadn’t celebrated birthdays or anniversaries since the Prague Spring in 1968 and I forgot about 

China and turned toward life in Eastern Europe…and then to Hong Kong and I started to write the 

poems that would make up my first book. 

I later burned them after the death of a dear friend from Hong Kong. 

Now, this June 4th, 2023, 34 years later, I am a different man, a different writer and China is a 

different nation in so many ways and so much the same in others: the heart of the Chinese people for 

life without oppression still writes poems on the walls and the government still oppresses and jails 

her citizens and nothing we have done seems to have rid the men in charge and every night before 

and through the night I hold a vigil of sorts: a few times in Hong Kong, once in Taipei, several times 

in Toronto and New York and tonight, once again. 

This year instead of a candle, I danced: to feel my body ache with sweat and music, to free my head 

from the hurt that comes every June, feed memory with heartbeat and in solidarity with those still 

struggling 

wrote poems with my body instead in a darkened room, spoke with gestures in the air through the late 

night with my partner, a woman from Taiwan, as we swayed beneath the red lights and the ephemeral 

and for a few hours, there was nothing but music and love and embodied sound and the night for 

once seemed infinite and we moved into the light from the shadows and there was life and there was 

cadence and language was replaced by unthinking and we knew again one day there would be bliss 

and we all would be free. 

阿飛正傳 

our days of being wild, again. 

this reflection was first published on June 4th in Cha Asian journal. my gratitude to the editors

TANGENTS 

Wilson Tsang 

The Joke

CHEEZ 

Fiona Smyth 

Fiona Smyth’s work and book at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/fiona-smyth

Sketchbook 

Tomio Nitto

The Photograph 

coordinated by 

Kamelia Pezeshki 

Old garden rose by Kamelia Pezeshki

ART LOGBOOK 

Holly Lee 

An intimate glimpse at North America’s Eastern Hellbender, an ancient salamander that 

lives as much in myth as in reality.... and in many waters, myths are all that remain of 

these sentinel stream-dwellers. Image from Freshwaters Illustrated. Photographer David 

Herasimtschuk 

https://www.davidherasimtschuk.com/hellbenders 

(Use arrow to navigate. Roll over to the lower left for picture captions)

Open/Endedness 

bq 不清 

粽子 

有一點是肯定的 , 雨 

落地之後便失去了其意義 

他們的焦點將從完成式 

回到現在直到黑雲完全散去 

可是又有誰真正目睹雲朵 

因為雨盡而徹底消失 ? 

我正想起一座只發單音不能 

奏出孤獨感的鋼琴 

這裡有好多黑鍵 

或高或低但又永遠凸出來 

令初學者不知所措之餘 

又同時使人好奇 

就像春天於北極 

在漫長的光明中寒冷著 

而我們不需要聖誕節 

也能誦唱一曲平安夜了

STICKY RICE DUMPLINGS 

One thing is sure. Raindrops 

Lose their meanings after they land on the ground. 

Their focus is back to the present from the finished 

State until all dark clouds have fully dispersed. 

But who has witnessed the disappearance of 

Clouds at the end of a storm really? 

I am thinking of a piano that only produces a single note 

And thus cannot perform the notion of loneliness. 

Lots of black keys are here, 

Highs and lows, and always protruding, 

Making beginners uncomfortable but 

at the same time curious about the situation. 

A situation like spring in the North Pole. 

It’s cold under this lengthening brightness. 

And we don’t need Christmas 

to be singing Silent Night.

Travelling Palm 

Snapshots 

Tamara Chatterjee 

France (March, 2022) – A little creepy, a 

little eerie and out of the normal comfort 

zone, the Natural History museum and its 

famed collection of bones is a marvel to 

explore. The galleries have glass windows 

which allow a luminous light to magnify some 

rather haunting skeletal shadows. Entry into 

mammalia begins with human anatomy and 

ends in dramatic fashion with a blue whale 

carcass. My favorite section though is the glass 

ceiling gallery, and its skeleton collection of 

monstrous beasts and outrageous fossils.

TERRAIN the collaboration project, 

Gary Michael Dault writes haiku as a 

response on Lee Ka-sing’s photograph. 

It was originally started in 2022, and 

was picked up again in April 2023, 

and published at oceanpounds.com 

as a daily updated column. 

Included in this volume are the first fifty pairs. 

Ka-sing’s photographs were 

taken in between 2021 to 2023. 

TERRAIN, one 

by Lee Ka-sing and Gary Michael Dault 

116 pages, 8x10 inch, available in hardcover and ebook editions 

View complimentary copy in full version: 

https://books.leekasing.com/2023/05/t1.html

ProTesT 

Cem Turgay

From the Notebooks 

(2010-2023) 

Gary Michael Dault 

From the Notebooks, 2010-2023 

Number 181: Der Rosenkavalier (The Metal Flower), March 24, 

2014. 

Gary Michael Dault’s work and books at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/gary-michael-dault

Greenwood 

Kai Chan 

Drawing 

ink on tracing paper 

Kai Chan’s work and books at OCEAN POUNDS 

oceanpounds.com/collections/kai-chan

DIGI (1994-1996) is an extension to the last issue “DISLOCATION 

1992-1999, and Beyond”. 

DIGI zine was a side-track in the course of our publishing venture. 

It was attached to the PHOTOART, in the last section as part of 

the contents. An additional print-run of 500 copies was printed 

as an independent publication–in the exact manner as we did for 

DISLOCATION in PHOTO PICTORIAL. In total, thirteen issues of 

DIGI were published from 1994 to 1995, with the last issue coming 

out in 1996. 

In this issue of DOUBLE DOUBLE, we reproduced the thirteen 

issues of DIGI zine as a complete volume facsimile edition. 

The original DIGI zine is in the format of 8.5x11 inch, 16 pages. 

Each issue had a 500 print-runs. 

DOUBLE DOUBLE April/ May edition 2023 

DIGI (1994-1996) 

232 pages, 8x10 inch, ebook and paperback editions 

Read-on-line edition for PATREON members 

https://reads.oceanpounds.com/2023/05/digi.html

DOUBLE DOUBLE February/ March edition 2023 

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

340 pages, 8x10 inch, ebook and hardcover editions 

Hardcover edition available at Blurb (CAD$125) 

https://www.blurb.ca/b/11543683-dislocation-1992-1999-and-beyond 

ebook edition (PDF download, US$10) 

https://oceanpounds.com/products/dislocation 

Read online the complimentary copy in full version 

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 

The Air is like a Butterfly 

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

ARTPOST contributors 

Cem Turgay lives and works as a photographer in 

Turkey. 

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 

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 

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

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

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 


ana 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 

Istanbul Postcards 

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

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 

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 

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 

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.

Under the management of Ocean and Pounds 

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art-admirers, collectors and professionals from different 

cities visiting and working in Toronto. 

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