MONDAY ARTPOST 2023-0814

MONDAY
ARTPOST
2023-0814
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 / Malgorzata Wolak Dault
/ Shelley Savor / Tamara Chatterjee /
Tomio Nitto / Wilson Tsang / Yam Lau
+ OP Edition: Rong Rong / 2K 5.0 - a
dialogue in pictures (Kai Chan and
Lee Ka-sing) / Poem (Sarah Teitel)
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

TERRAIN, Book One
116 pages, 8x10 inch, hardcover
Hardcover edition is now available for order from BLURB
(CAN$60) https://www.blurb.ca/b/11625068-terrain-one
TERRAIN, Book Two
116 pages, 8x10 inch, hardcover
Hardcover edition is now available for order from BLURB
(CAN$60) https://www.blurb.ca/b/11640008-terrain-two

TERRAIN (a haiku a day, Book Three) photographs by Lee Ka-sing / haiku by Gary Michael Dault
a column. published daily at: oceanpounds.com
Guardian
An insolent barricade!
The sneering of its wire mesh
defends the baby bricks behind it.

… 談 笑 間 …
Yam Lau

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Drawing
ink on paper
Kai Chan’s work and books at OCEAN POUNDS
oceanpounds.com/collections/kai-chan

Sarah Teitel
On the sill beside
Do not touch
says the leaf, with its rubber sheen
Run your finger gently if you must
leave no sign
Anyway, a scrim’s about me
says the leaf, grooved like a tongue
Maybe I am bristled
says the leaf, spiked with tiny hairs
brush me
skin to skin is how you’d know
Demi-steps
each as long as half the one before
aimed at the shape of a leaf
in a mirror in a mirror
What is left to tell about your longing?
says the leaf, flush in its greenness
On the sill beside
a clump of potted grass stands straw-crisp
refuses the light
Sarah Teitel is a multidisciplinary artist living in
Toronto. She writes poems, songs and prose; draws,
sings and plays instruments.
sarahteitel1.bandcamp.com/album/give-and-take
light that is immeasurably abundant
costs nothing

Sketchbook
Tomio Nitto

Watercolours Part One:
Skies Over Water
Malgorzata Wolak Dault
The collection of watercolours to be shown here was influenced by John
Marin’s Maine landscapes and seascapes. They are, as well, the fruits of the
drives my husband and I often take through Prince Edward County to look at
and enjoy its ever-changing skies and waters.
The Distant Shore

From the Notebooks
(2010-2023)
Gary Michael Dault
From the Notebooks, 2010-2023
Number 191: My Cup Runneth Over at Midnight (April 19, 2019)
Gary Michael Dault’s work and books at OCEAN POUNDS
oceanpounds.com/collections/gary-michael-dault

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
THREE IMPRESSIONS of the BUDDHA*
traces of the Buddha
on a rock
cuts
in the stone
an inch deep
where he sat
a one-inch depression
in the rock
where Buddha placed
his water jar
in a building
to the west
of the king’s
palace
there rests
a tooth of the Buddha
yellowish white
ever emitting
a sparkling light
*Gleaned from Samuel Beal, The Life of
Hiuen-Tsiang (Daryaganj, New Delhi: Gyan
Publishing House, 2020)

Open/Endedness
bq 不 清
已 無 法 體 會 的 一 維 空 間 之 中
你 一 直 往 前 行
沒 需 要 為 選 擇 左 右 而 為 難
你 就 在 那 條 神 秘 的 時 光 隧 道 裡
隨 時 捉 住 一 段 往 事 或 往 前
繼 續 尋 找 河 上 的 浮 木
和 其 我 們 稱 之 為 樹 洞 的 出 口
正 零 邊 形
你 又 回 到 那 個 關 乎 末 日 的 夢
一 群 貓 咪 在 外 邊 展 示 真 正 的 面 貌
擱 淺 的 海 鯨 和 野 果 別 無 兩 樣
花 將 盛 放 於 天 空 ; 你 以 為
這 可 能 是 最 為 感 人 的 古 曲 : 一 首
作 曲 家 夢 寐 以 求 的 第 九 交 響 樂
你 曾 經 花 上 三 百 六 十 五 天 以
籌 備 一 個 新 年 , 但 又
以 短 短 廿 四 小 時
把 它 虛 度 ; 但 這 個 未 竟 的 角 落
未 有 確 立 時 間 , 一 個 夏 天
落 下 無 限 雨 水 以 淹 沒 所 有 海 洋
而 你 因 爲 正 在 乘 搭 一 列 隱 藏 的
地 鐵 而 逃 過 一 劫 ?
究 竟 有 多 少 對 著 揚 聲 器 道 出 秘 密 的 人
依 然 活 著 ? 道 別
往 往 不 需 要 正 式 的 再 會
你 問 地 上 受 到 瘀 傷 的 野 果 有 否
流 淚 於 樹 下
風 能 把 過 早 的 肉 體 吹 乾
傷 口 早 已 長 出 新 苗
( 但 並 不 是 所 有 都 會 )
一 個 不 曾 存 在 的 都 市
在 眾 人 的 眼 中 , 重 點 不 在 於
發 掘 其 深 藏 的 考 古 物
埋 沒 才 是
一 群 外 省 人
不 用 推 門 就 來 到 亞 特 蘭 蒂 斯 堡
在 這 裡 , 櫥 窗 演 練 的 不 是
雨 水 , 而 是 季 節
樹 葉 都 是 假 的
雪 花 也 是 。 這 裡 沒 有
氣 候 暖 化 的 問 題
沒 有 失 眠 的 夜
海 床 之 上 的 月 亮 永 遠 遼 闊
如 所 有 蒼 穹 之 星 空
在 那 片 最 原 始 的 土 地 上
蛇 的 舌 頭 尚 未 分 裂
所 有 感 知 仍 處 於 你

Space you could no longer experience.
You kept moving forward,
Not struggling with picking left or right.
You were in that mysterious tunnel of time getting
Ready to grasp a moment of the past, or kept on moving
Forward to locate a driftwood on the river
And the exit, what we called a tree hollow.
ZEROGON
You are back to the dream about doomsday again.
Outside, a kindle of kittens shows off their true selves.
Stranded whales and fruits seem identical.
Flowers blossom high in the sky; you think
These might be the most touching old songs ever written: the
Ninth symphony composers have longed for.
You spent three hundred and sixty-five days
Preparing for a New Year, only to
Fritter it away in
Twenty-four hours; here in this unfinished niche,
Time had not been established. An infinite amount of
Rainfall flooded all the oceans this summer,
And for you were riding a hidden subway train
you escaped the catastrophe.
How many people who told secrets to loudspeakers
Are still alive? Farewells
Often needed no formal goodbyes.
You asked the bruised wild fruits on the ground if
they wept beneath the trees.
Breeze dried the premature bodies.
Sprouts grew out of the wound.
(But not all of them would)
The importance of a city that had
Never existed, in everyone’s eyes, wasn’t
What archaeological finds we could uncover,
But what was buried and covered up.
Outsiders from another province
Arrived at Atlantisborough without opening a door.
Here, store window rehearsals aren’t about
Rain, but seasons.
The leaves are all fake,
So are the snowflakes. There are no
Global warming problems.
No sleepless nights.
The moon above the seabed stretches out,
Like all heavenly starry nights.
In that most primordial land,
Snakes’ tongues had yet to split.
All perception was still in the one-dimensional

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth
Fiona Smyth’s work and book at OCEAN POUNDS
oceanpounds.com/collections/fiona-smyth

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Blueberries
Shelley Savor’s work and book at OCEAN POUNDS
oceanpounds.com/collections/Shelley-Savor

TANGENTS
Wilson Tsang
Look Out (sketch)

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

ART LOGBOOK
Holly Lee
Artforum editor David Velasco talks to Wolfgang Tillmans about his current retrospective, “To
look without fear,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
https://www.artforum.com/video/under-the-cover-wolfgang-tillmans-89446
(video: 22:45)
AGO - Toronto: Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear
April 7, 2023 - October 1, 2023
https://ago.ca/exhibitions/wolfgang-tillmans-look-without-fear
(photo caption)
Deer Hirsch, 1995 by Wolfgang Tillman

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
France (March 2022) – While the giant and
his brood prepare to explore my homestead
- I fondly think back to theirs. To the jaunts
through history, art and culinary delights.
Situated on Ile Saint-Louis is a small
triangular parkette which is an ideal place to
people-watch with a glorious Berthillion gelato
in hand.

The Photograph
Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Hand painted polaroids by Michelle Maria Kemble (1960-2009), Canadian

Rong Rong
1994, Beijing
8x10 inch, gelatin silver photograph, printed in 90s
Number 3/18, OP Edition
Signed, dated and titled 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

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
Transformation and Transition
“Reversing a death is not the same as restoring a life.”—Sunita Puri
Watch his heart untie, an old pair of shoes shoulders slopped black & blue
laces and lungs let lose and words go in tangles fraying from all he knew
through the eyelets his truth unstitched Sine qua non, blue the hue where language
unscrewed the familiar familial thoughts now long along his jawline, remember
when they unbuckled the door and now vacationing birds come wings and omens, unglued
still she longs the forlorn days
the bodies sway careening and upended in a lake canoe
find him, the dampened hallways find him, the noosed backstays of this backstage
unhung city, tobacco and vegan coupling and the city hearts white flailed bespoken news
remember the simple geometry of living and paperback, carboard on the curb underneath
entirety came, arms wide and the sun, unglued
late in Spring in a drive-by rain, falling you go small as pebbles car off the road
the view from a roof top her thumb nail blue, falls away newly used
shorn eyebrows in the morning light tongue patterns ink up the patter and promises scatter
food steps of the elderly syllables, tea-stained, innervated in raincoat’s calculus
of a wobbly night and falling flight between the silence and the noise, the crowd
the sweet bite of dendrite of licorice laced between fingers folded into a poem

at day, stanzas walk in the rain as the river turned up its heels the glamour of the ceiling
in May when we forgot our hearts language didn’t unlock old
doors not the key, the prance, not the soft-syllable of romance only you
if upon then a night late in Spring scribbled up by rain falling between tooth and pebble
you tree bark, scuffed up macadam where were they to see her and begin to call out
would you
recognize behind the tailpipes and skylarks, falling anew the sky to earth’s unused refuse
the fuselage of the refused sorrow’s dance the foxtrot still sooth as you watch from the sidelines
gravity takes her far travel un-bone the floor from the music the rafters from the gone
the countermeasure, the gravity grandmother’s sewing kit and black-spit bright shoes
her dead pulling up their socks unbox grandpa’s ghosts the drinks must be made, anew
a requirement, the science in the pew the light of the book’s binding where words tug and tag
at you, the gamble on gambolling as the earth hastens, the red clay
the soles up in the mud, the hen’s eggs cracked long ago and the hound realizes the licking
creak of the long slow leak of life let leaf-by-leaf go upon the creak and the crawfish
when you spoke of the openness of things, between your knees, the child braving fear off a summer
cliff
another child falling apart by a hydrant’s spay another whose mother lost a key in a trailer,
dying
of the crooked light and paper, scissor, rock racqueting over a field of rusted crops cops grown
weary
as weeds pulled up-tight behind the bodega a murder of ravens descend and the quaking ascends
the postal train away in fright the land buckles and the feathers bathing the bottom of scampering
feet
she rubs soft stones through her toes to ease the aftershocks auntie’s prescription
to recall the spinning in a dislocated room clinging as mama-ma and papa danced and clanged
around each other’s waist Spanish moss wedded to a tree, unkempt at night, there they were
and we, three bowed on our knees ripening the black fruit in the sun once bronzed, so
there was this poem and not the other nothing really done right the caps screwed on tight
and what other mistaken taken with our eyes closes and our teeth clenched and feeling the dark of
night
where the break between the vowels and the plow, the silence and the rolled r, is
where is the break between the poem that first turned-up and the poem at the end of the page
where is the break between the pronouns and the sleeves unrolled, selves
where is the break between traditional and simplified, the language of languor
where is the break between the space of light outside and the hullabaloo under the door
where is the chariot under the sun run us
if upon a night late in Spring language wobbles away in a cart of rain and all the rest
if you stood right there between the shadow of the man and the stone wall and whispered
carry her with you, old man take the stories under your arms and tuck them under a porch
unplow the seeds in the fields and push them through a pill bright on a tongue
swallow, swallow
swallow everything away until the dying and the day is done
your heart people multitudinous and flaked by finger and dew
and the dancers over the oak floors the stars stomping bright-right on the tin roofs, sway
and lovers risk limb and loss and lamentation long stories uncoil and lives untie
language lay seadrift and the bone-twine too unwinds certainty, as we all bank away
hear the world crack, fledgling bamboo.

2K 5.0
(The fifth chapter
of a collaboration.
A dialogue in
pictures)
Kai Chan and
Lee Ka-sing

Image on the left by Kai Chan,
image on the right by Lee Ka-sing.
2K 5.0
Published here are six diptychs in their original
sequence. A complete suite of this collaboration
will be published in the October 2023 issue of
DOUBLE DOUBLE.

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
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
The Air is like a Butterfly
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/07/tab.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
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
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
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/05/dd202205.html
ana Picnic Stones
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/04/dd202204.html
Terrain Little Red Riding Hood Rosetta
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/03/dd202203.htm
Donkey camera and auld lang syne
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/02/dd202202.html
The Fountain the Shop the Rhythmic Train
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/01/dd202201.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
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.
Tomio Nitto is a noted illustrator lives in Toronto. The
sketchbook is the camera, he said.
Nine-Years
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2020/02/ny.html
Istanbul Postcards
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/07/ip.html
Eighty Two Photographs
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/10/82p.html
Time Machine
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2021/12/tm.html
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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