MONDAY ARTPOST 2023-1030

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2023-1030
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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
+ K&G Greenwood - Love Park (Holly Lee)/
red rose (Sarah Teitel) / OP Edition: Karl Chiu
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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
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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
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.
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.

OP Edition (an archive)
Karl Chiu
Untitled
8x10 inch,gelatin silver photograph, printed in 90s
Number 1/20, 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)

Black Flowers: Drawings
by Malgorzata Wolak Dault

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
You might be interested in Shelley Savor’s book
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/09/mcmc.html
Autumn Leaf Sonata #1

K&G Greenwood
Holly Lee
Chipmunk guarding the hearts of gold, taken at the
Love Park, Toronto, 2023
Love Park (Claude Cormier + Associés)
K&G Greenwood is a project of intricate complexities. It revolves around
the realms of experience, cherished memories, enduring friendships, and a
profound love for gardens, artists, writers, and books.
My journey began by calling a stag a horse. Using pictures I took from
K&G’s garden, I paired each one with my writings written for different
gardens that have inspired and intrigued me.
The project takes the form of postcards, which I mail to K and G at intervals.
On each postcard, I include a few sentences from the longer text. I extend an
invitation to K or G to respond by taking a photograph each time they receive
my postcard.
The pond is shaped like a heart. It measures 165 metres, or 3,248 thumb
lengths. With an edge of 14 thumb lengths, the pond creates a continuous
love seat clad in anti-slip glass mosaic tiles in various shades of red: tart,
maroon, crimson, light coral, and Airbnb red. In the left chamber of the
heart, there is a mature Northern Catalpa tree standing on its own dedicated
island surrounded by water.
Circling the pond are thirty-eight new trees: one ginkgo, three dawn
redwoods, seven Redmond lindens, seven American elms, four golden
weeping willows, thirteen silver maples, and three black walnuts. Known
as Love Park and built in the heart of the city from a former expressway
ramp, this two-acre green space in downtown Toronto is designed with a
unique feature: a heart-shaped pond. It is only a seven-minute walk to the
Toronto Island Ferries. When visitors pass by the area, it provides a perfect
enclave for a moment of respite amid the traffic’s roar and the overwhelming
presence of skyscrapers that surround it. However, when you look down from
one of the tall office buildings above, a bird’s-eye view reveals Love Park
as a living, aqua heart outlined in red. It readily offers arriving passengers
with hugs and kisses an entrancing place to stroll and rest. In time, I wonder
if the pond can be used for little boat races in the summer and as a skating
rink in the winter.

Holly Lee: K&G Greenwood original postcard – Love Park (Claude Cormier + Associés)
144mm x 100mm, 2023
I remember a photograph by the veteran Hong Kong photographer Yau
Leung. It depicted a round pond in Victoria Park, located in Causeway Bay
on Hong Kong Island. People, primarily children, were gathered around the
pond to conduct small boat races. Not only do I recall the photograph, but I
also remember going to the park to watch the races. I’m curious about if this
ancient game will be revived at the heart pond, or if people prefer the virtual
game of starship races in the cosmos of the twenty-first century?
I visited Love Park yesterday, months after its opening in June. It is the
most recent landscape design of an urban park by the late designer Claude
Cormier, whom I was eager to explore, but who has now passed away. I was
initially drawn to his earlier work “Lipstick Forest,” an indoor installation at
Montreal’s convention center, where he constructed 52 concrete tree trunks
lacquered in bright pink. Nevertheless, my attention was derailed when I
learned that he had also designed a small park in the centre of Toronto: Love
Park at Queens Quay West. This is within easy reach and I was eager to
follow its development.
Born in Quebec, Claude Cormier is known for his landscape architecture
and urban design, characterized by playfulness and the use of vibrant colors.
Without even knowing the architect’s name or making an effort to discover
it, I wouldn’t forget the pink umbrellas on the artificial sand beach along our
waterfront. Before Sugar Beach, there was HTO Park on the shores of Lake
Ontario, planted with yellow umbrellas, and after that, the blue umbrellas at
Clock Tower Beach in Montreal. Another popular destination in Toronto is
Berczy Park, where a whimsical and ornate fountain featuring 27 dogs and
a cat was created behind the Flatiron Building on Wellington Street East. I
have been to some of these places and appreciated their Whimsy approaches
to urban design. Now that I am acquainted with Claude Cormier, I’ve noticed
that more of his projects are unfolding in Toronto. The recent demise of the
designer has left Canada mourning for its loss of a great talent.

Before Cormier’s passing, he completed two significant works: Love Park
in Toronto, and The Ring in Montreal. The Ring, a monumental stainless
steel sculpture, gracefully suspends over the steps of Place Ville Marie’s
Esplanade in the heart of downtown Montreal. It has a staggering scale of
30 metres, or 590 thumb lengths in diameter and weighing some 50,000
pounds. When lit up at night, this gigantic steel ring creates a spectacular
light show that is as enchanting and dazzling as Wagner’s Ring. It’s been
more than a decade since my last visit to Montreal, and I still haven’t had
the opportunity to witness the spectacle in person.
In Toronto, I know I’ll return to Love Park time and time again, experiencing
its different seasons and various moods. During my first visit, the
surrounding pathways were nice for a leisurely stroll, but I imagined they
would become even more charming in a few years as the newly planted trees
grew taller. While I wasn’t anxious to locate the nine bronze-casted animal
sculptures, I couldn’t resist snapping a photograph of the bronze chipmunk
sat at the edge of the pond – on the red mosaic tiles love seat while guarding
the hearts of gold. Among the nine animal sculptures, most people would
likely notice two or three around: a polar bear, a fox, a rabbit. But there are
also a raccoon, an owl, a woodpecker, and a blue jay perching on the steel
wireframe pergola. In due time, this pergola will be adorned with cascading
clusters of white wisteria, creating an enchanting miniature waterfall that
exudes its delightful fragrance, welcoming visitors who pause to capture a
moment in front of this idyllic, picture-perfect setting.
Postcard photographed by Glenn Beech at home, Greenwood (2023)

Greenwood
Kai Chan
You might be interested in Kai Chan’s book
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Dream Head
founded wood, acrylic paint, 8 x 6 x 3/4 inches

Because
an exhibition by Kai Chan
Plus -
Book launch: 2K 5.0 (On the
Crown of a Silver Maple)
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From the Photographs,
2010-2023
Gary Michael Dault
Number 1: Blue Moon

Open/Endedness
bq 不 清
教 育
不 管 是 建 在
村 莊 旁 邊 還 是 森 林 前 面
所 有 學 校 的 蓋 法 和 外 觀
都 是 一 樣 的 。 那 些 夢 想 從
側 門 離 開 的 學 生
被 告 知 必 須 永 遠 使 用
正 門 。 不 得
繞 路 而 行 。 課 後
他 們 在 橢 圓 形 的 跑 道 上
奔 馳 , 並 在 裡 面 跳 高
而 我 們 在 觀 眾 席 上 , 按 摩 手 肘
互 相 擦 去 肩 上 的 塵 土

EDUCATION
It doesn’t matter if they are built
Beside a village or in front of a forest
For all schools are constructed and look
The same. Students who have dreamt
Of exiting from the side doors
Are told to leave strictly from the front
Entrance, always. There is no
Detour from it. After school,
They sprint on the oval-shaped
Running track, and high-jump within it.
And we sit at the spectator stand, rubbing elbows
And getting dirt off each other’s shoulders.

… 談 笑 間 …
Yam Lau

Little by Little
Paintings by Tomio Nitto
You might be interested in Tomio Nitto’s book
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2023/10/little-by-little.html
Tomio’s exhibition LITTLE BY LITTLE is currently on show
at 50 Gladstone Avenue artsalon, visit by appointment
(mail@oceanpounds.com)
Away from home
30” x 24”

Gentle Goose
30” x 24”

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
Uzbekistan (November, 2019) – We arrived
in Khiva, while the diminutive light started
lowering on the horizon. Before losing all
light we set out for a jaunt, trying to take in as
much before settling in for the night. On my
wander around in admiration of the colourful
mosaic tiles with varying hues of greens and
turquoise, I discovered a curious photographer
with his gilded gold chair. It took a few days to
convince the matriarch to let me immortalize
her moment with a super touristy snapshot
next to the Kalta Minor Minaret. Looking back
at the costume and resisting expression, still
makes me laugh.

Sarah Teitel
red rose
last on the bush
scentless
as the glass base of a lamp
a stack of paper napkins
out-fragranced
by a spool of thread
that vents (surprise!)
a redolence
of pencil shavings
ace rose
minus a bouquet
nails the role of “rose”
spurs me to sniff
and wax
on the essence of matter
the cinnamon cloy
of a yellowed book
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
a frying pan
that wafts a nose
of petrol
and grass

The Photograph
Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
The calm corner by Kamelia Pezeshki

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
Grappa
(Venice in November)
Venice
creaks in the light
the vaporetti churning past
riding on oil slick
I walk
the Guidecca
looking for old mists
of Ezra Pound
The greasy water
laps at my feet
they’re still repairing
gondolas here
I remember
a softer world
back when Harry’s Bar
owed me a Bellini
Now a hard grappa
will do fine
in anyplace warm,
some little snug
that holds me like a glove

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth
You might be interested in Fiona Smyth’s book
https://books.oceanpounds.com/2022/05/c456.html

OPUS Archive
Lee Ka-sing
MOVIOLA
The finished frame measures 47 x 46.5 inches and is 3 inches deep.
It comprises 13 columns, each capable of holding 18 wood block
squares. I titled this work “MOVIOLA,” which includes 234 photo
squares, each measuring 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches. The intriguing
part is that they are rearrangeable, allowing for new variations
each time they are reorganized.
Lee Ka-sing OPUS Archive
Mixed media: Oak, pine, spruce, inkjet print, acrylic medium
MOVIOLA
(2015) Op.9

MOVIOLA
In 2012, I embarked on a new journey by mounting my photo
prints onto small square wooden blocks measuring 2.5 by 2.5
inches, with a thickness of 1.5 inches. Over time, I selected
images from various series of my previous work. As I created
more of these photo image blocks, I began to see them as akin
to words in a language. Inspired by this realization, I started
constructing poems and written pieces using these fragmented
picture words. This eventually led to the development of series
like “Mobile Poetry Lab” and “Picture Haiku,” that even
influenced my recent sequential image works presented in book
form.
Each photo print was delicately mounted on the front of a wooden
block and coated with acrylic medium, applied using a technique
I call “finger-strokes.” These strokes reflect the emotions I
poured into the process.
By 2015, I gradually ceased making these photo wood blocks,
leaving around two hundred pieces. I decided to keep them for
myself and constructed a frame-like container to house them.
The finished frame measures 47 x 46.5 inches and is 3 inches
deep. It comprises 13 columns, each capable of holding 18 wood
block squares. I titled this work “MOVIOLA,” which includes
234 photo squares, each measuring 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 inches. The
intriguing part is that they are rearrangeable, allowing for
new variations each time they are reorganized.
I planned to create a new variation once a year and document it
with a camera. I succeeded in doing so for the first two years but
lost track in the subsequent years. In the second year, I titled the
variation “It all initiated with a winged man trying to start
a conversation with Oscar,” inspired by the host’s case at the
Academy Awards in 2016.
Between 2012 and 2015, I produced over a thousand of these
square photo wood blocks. Some were sold, some were given as
gifts to friends. These blocks were displayed on a large shelf on
a gallery wall, serving as both a sales showcase and a carousel of
visual ideas while I worked on my picture poems.

MOVIOLA
The Inaugural Tale Begins with Four Corners (2015)
Mixed media: Oak, pine, spruce, inkjet print, acrylic medium,
measures 47 x 46.5 x 3 inches
Installed in August, 2015 at INDEXG gallery, Toronto

MOVIOLA
It all initiated with a winged man trying to start a
conversation with Oscar (2016)
Mixed media: Oak, pine, spruce, inkjet print, acrylic medium,
measures 47 x 46.5 x 3 inches
A variation installed in February 2016,
inspired by the host’s case at the Academy Awards in 2016

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