(dd) 0201-2019

DOUBLE DOUBLE webzine archive 2019-2021
DOUBLE DOUBLE was initially released as a weekly publication,
spanning from January 4, 2019, to December 31, 2021, with a
total of 158 issues. Following this, it underwent a transformation
into book-on-demand and ebook formats, transitioning into a
monthly release structure. This monthly publication continued
from January 2022 until the end of 2023. As of 2024, the
frequency of publication shifted to a quarterly basis. Despite
these changes, the content consistently maintained its focus on
the archival material from Ka-sing and Holly, new works, and
collaborative pieces.
0201-2019
(edition February 1, 2019)
50 Gladstone, photographs (Lee Ka-sing) /
The Thinker, poem (Holly Lee) / VINTAGE - Friends,
Artists and People I Know (Holly Lee) / Sushi Grass
in Paradise, a novel (Holly Lee) / PAPER TALK -
Ara Güler & Yau Leung (Holly Lee) / BOOKSCAPE -
The Language of Fruits and Vegetable (Lee Ka-sing)

CURRENT WORK 1
Lee Ka-sing
Selected photographs from the series “50
Gladstone Avenue 吉 石 大 道 50 號 , a macro
and micro documentary in present tense”
January 30, 2019 (snowflake)

January 25, 2019 (roses)

January 25, 2019 (tree)

January 25, 2019 (crocodile)

January 25, 2019 (happy)

January 25, 2019 (M)

January 11, 2019 (armchair Dr. NO)

January 25, 2019 (space dish Broncolor)

January 25, 2019 (double)

CURRENT WORK 1
A poem by Holly Lee, with image by Lee Ka-sing
The Thinker (after Rodin)
Is it really
our time has past
couldn’t catch up
don’t really want to
is it really
a backward idea
Is it only
nostalgia
wouldn’t fall behind
don’t really want to
is it really
a clever idea
Then is it safe
to stay still
or just swim
in familiar water
it might not
be a bad idea
And, is it fair
to get despair
when all our lifetimes
can now be shared
is it not
an uplifting idea

VINTAGE
Vintage photographs by Holly Lee
Friends, Artists and People I Know
我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及 其 他
“Friends, Artists and People I Know 我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及
其 他 ”, a series of photographs which was originally made for
an invited exhibition “WOMEN OF THE WORLD”, held in
May 1981. Additional portraits were made for “camera works,
holly & wingo”, our two-person exhibition held at Hong Kong
Arts Centre (June, 1981). The project continued through 1985
and around 30 portraits were made. A portfolio case of vintage
photographs (23 counts) is still with us, which contains most of
the photographs from the 1981 exhibition.
In 2012, The Hong Kong Heritage Museum organized the
“BEYOND THE PORTRAIT” exhibition. The committee had
selected ten works from this series, which was later collected
by the museum after the exhibition. Those are newly made
Archival Pigment Prints, in the size of 17”x22”.

Friends, Artists and People I Know 我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及 其 他
16”x20” gelatin silver prints, photographed and printed in 1981
Antonio Mak Hin-Yeung (sculptor) 麥 顯 揚

Li Kam Fai (illustrator) 李 錦 煇

Mak Siu-Tong (Cantonese rod puppets master) 麥 兆 棠

Chung Ling Ling (writer) 鍾 玲 玲

Ann Hui (film director) 許 鞍 華

Tang Wong Zim (my grandmother) 鄧 旺 嬋

Helen Lai (modern dance choreographer) 黎 海 寧

Fanny Chan (studio assistant) 陳 靜 芬

Leung Kui Ting (artist) 梁 巨 廷

Chan Man (artist) 陳 文

Helga Burger (Asian performance art promoter) 布 海 歌

ARTIFACT
Friends, Artists and People I Know 我 的 朋 友 , 藝 術 家 及 其 他
16”x20” gelatin silver prints, photographed and printed in 1981
A review by Nigel Cameron on the exhibition WOMEN OF THE WORLD”, published on South
China Morning Post, May 27, 1981.
(WONG is Holly’s family name. She began to use HOLLY LEE in 1981 and keeps the name in
Chinese as 黃 楚 喬 )

CURRENT WORK 3
Sushi Grass in Paradise (A story)
written by Holly Lee
with photograph by Lee Ka-sing
(1) Bento Family
Saturday morning, cloudy with occasional showers. Mrs.
Bento woke up with a headache the minute she thought about
changing the clock to Standard Time. That meant she had to
deal with every time device in the house - the phones, the oven,
the radio with a CD player, and all the other gadgets that have
a time display on. “Can I just put myself back one hour so I
don’t have to adjust all this stuff?”. To relieve herself, Mrs.
Bento decided to fall back an hour when she’s in the house.
“Everybody just checks their cell phones for time anyway...and
what’s more, I don’t need to go back to Daylight Saving Time
next Spring.” She laid down the Standard Time business with a
sigh of relief and fell right back to dreaming.
Mrs. Bento is not Japanese. She and her husband got the
Bento name from their customers. Having immigrated with
their daughter, Ginger, from Hong Kong twenty years ago, as
soon as they arrived in Toronto, they took a friend’s advice and
bought a franchise business in the airport area in Mississauga.
It was a small sushi bar; work was hard, and no business was
easy. But with Mrs. Bento’s clever makeover of a 21st-century
home-packed meal, combining nutrition, taste, and value, the
new Bento Box proved to be a top seller. After six years of
continuous hard work, they saved up a 20% down payment to
purchase a house in downtown Toronto, in an area known as
West Queen West. The Bentos love city life, the short walk to all
activities on the street, proximity to cafes, shops, restaurants,
galleries, a supermarket, and the postal office. Nearby there is
even the Theatre Centre, newly converted from a historic library
building built way back in 1908.

PAPER TALK
Written by Holly Lee
Wooden crates as pulling carts
For back street boys
Wooden crate as pillow box
On a sidewalk bed
Run ye run
Against the setting sun
Dream ye dream
For the day is done
Left: Ara Güler - Zeyrek, Fatih, 1968
(“Ara Güler’s Istanbul”. Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2015)
Right: Yau Leung - Wellington Street, Central Hong Kong, 1966
(Yau Leung “Growing up in Hong Kong”. Publisher: Photo Arts 1994)

H+K COLLECTION
Update
This photograph was sold in June 2019, at SOTHEBY’S, Hong Kong,
during the exhibition:
‘VISION OF HONG KONG, From Two Generations -
YAU LEUNG | LEE KA-SING” (June 6-25, 2019)
Yau Leung
Photograph printed in the Nineties
8”x10” fibre-based gelatin silver print, signed and numbered on verso
OP Selection, with “OP Selection” blind-stamp
Edition 1/100

BOOKSCAPE
The Language of Fruits and Vegetable 蔬 果 說 話
“The Language of Fruits and Vegetable 蔬 果 說 話 ” was a collaboration piece between Leung
Ping Kwan (1949-2013) and Lee Ka-sing. It presented a dialogue between poem and images
and was an installation-based continuum in Leung and Lee’s project “FOODSCAPE”. In the
FOODSCAPE exhibition in 2004, Ka-sing took the form of an artist book, which consisted of
one poem “Green Salad” from Leung’s poem series “The Language of Fruits and Vegetable”,
and 252 photographs selected from Lee’s photo series titled “dot hong kong”. Five hundred
exhibition copies were printed to present as an installation in the exhibition “Hong Kong
Foodscape” (Leung Ping Kwan, Lee Ka-sing and Millie Chen) held at the Hong Kong Heritage
Museum from July 11 to October 4, 2004. The books are 5.5” x 5.5”, 288 pages. In addition, a
limited edition of 252 copies were made and available to the public.
“The Language of Fruits and Vegetable” was published by Ocean and Pounds and Hong Kong
Heritage Museum in 2004. Publication designed by Lee Ka-sing

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