MONDAY ARTPOST 2024-0826

MONDAY
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2024-0826
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Columns by Artists and Writers
Bob Black / bq / Cem Turgay / Fiona Smyth /
Gary Michael Dault / Holly Lee / Jeff Jackson
/ Kai Chan / Kamelia Pezeshki / Lee Ka-sing
/ Malgorzata Wolak Dault / Shelley Savor /
Tamara Chatterjee / Tomio Nitto / Yam Lau /
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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
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.
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
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.
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.

http://kasingholly.com

Sushi Grass in Paradise & Greener Rice on the Other Side
壽 司 草 邊 的 天 堂 & 青 蛾 飯
A duo exhibition at WMA Space, Hong Kong
by Holly Lee and Sharon Lee

“Sushi Grass in Paradise” ( 壽 司 草 邊 的 天 堂 ) is a
novel written by Holly Lee, with a Chinese translation
by 宋 子 江 and book design by Lau Ching Ping. This
book is featured in the exhibition “Sushi Grass in
Paradise & Greener Rice on the Other Side,” a duo
exhibition by Holly Lee and Sharon Lee, held at WMA
Space in Hong Kong.
The books displayed in the exhibition are limited to 30
print runs. However, a flip book edition is available for
complimentary browsing online during the exhibition
period (from August 24 to October 6, 2024) at this
link:
https://reads.doubledouble.org/2024/08/sp.html
(The online edition is best viewed on a desktop
computer at full screen. It can be read on a tablet,
though it is not as user-friendly on a cell phone.)
A facsimile edition ( 復 刻 本 ) will be available to
the public in mid-October after the exhibition. For
inquiries, please contact: mail@oceanpounds.com

The Photograph
Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
From the series “broken land”, “My heart has been pierced”
by Nicholas X Bent

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
Love’s Body
where is the organ
of doubt
In the unbaked
body?
In what bony
cupboard
Is for example
suspicion kept?
how about Irritation?
is it the red steel chest
like a tool box
between the squeezebox
lungs?
as for the soul
I always thought
It was sealed up
somewhere
In a glassine envelope
not far from
the spleen
that was until
I began looking at
paintings by
William Blake
and seeing the soul
peeling away
from the newly-died
figure
like a banana sheath
so perhaps the soul
is a moist body-stocking,
something like a vegetable skin
or a fruit paring

Sketchbook
Tomio Nitto

Cityscape, City Myth
Jeff Jackson
MONUMENT
2024
Acrylic Wash, Oil Pastel and Colour Pencil on Handmade Paper
11” x 17” Approx.

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
Author’s Note:
Today’s poem is the second in the series of poems entitled Legacy of Spies
which will be published exclusively in Monday Art Post. Each of the poems
in the sequence will be open each section of my manuscript Under The Milky
Sun and I hope reflects each of the sections of the book.
The series is named after the John le Carré novel of the same name. I hope the
series and scope of the poem will upheld its ambition. But the world is seldom
kind to spies nor to the rest of us.
A Legacy of Spies, no. 2
“When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions.”--Shakespeare
the birdwatcher’s black ops, numbered notes & a confession
1. i have always loved early in the morning
2. a tongue slip of language inside the warm leftovers of night
3. the swirl of ice in a glass of whiskey, fever and fern
4. the wet drip of the softening clang in the dark heat
5. condensation on the lip, reality otherwise
6. refinement as if simple Coca-Cola
7. to allow my heart to appear more refined than in fact
8. we men of deceit, the head and heart
9. in fact, fact-less

10. just another locked machine
11. the ice whelping in a spin of code
12.
13. like a god monkeying with a human heart
14. we fool ourselves in the night with a smoky potable and a gesture
15. condensation nipples finger and a perfumed fog rolls up the shore
16. the dead fish, the rickrack of bottle & net
17. the sound of bones in a glass
18. metric of poem in a sleeve of exhalation
19. was always that way then
20. perfidy in our personage when we signed up
21.
22. I knew love would come and love would leave
23. we would die one day too on the beach shore or alleyway
24. banging on a tin door while we still could
25. the looking glass war of a life
26.
27. a story born of broached passwords, let me in Wen
28. a flickered gesture late at night, chin against wall
29. part of a larger body of work
30. pulled up from the depths of an elongated voyage
31. we are still entangled
32. chickenfeed and cipher
33. love dangled as bait on the other side of the sea
34.
35. expats kept metre to themselves long into the morning
36. poems in a drawer, small wedges of dissonance
37. hope scattered in a crumble and spit across a defector’s life
38. the minute in a shoulder’s turn becomes the last year, a blink
sea
39.
40. droplets wrung from crags of a solitary reckoning
41. twitch and tongue and torque
42. the god damned Ts
43.
44. blotch of sand, smudge of heart-stain, the dark snow-bitten window
45. spy dust and mesh
46. an expression of man
47. shadows by the door caught paper casual
48. in the rain cow-lick bite of wind
49. the knock of a sudden twist, sublime
50. betrayal bark of light upon an heroic nose
51. Achilles regret1
52.
53. alas when I left the station, the world collapsed as did my collar in the rain
54. for my children and your defenestrated nations, everything someday lost
55. love and grief decoded, for your eyes only
56.
57. and a name slipped away with the currents, the tradecraft of the swallow toward the
58.
59.
60. 1Variation on a section detail, no. 1

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Drawing
43 x 33 cm, acrylic paint on rice paper

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
AF-C

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs,
2010-2024
Number 45: Ship Carrying its own Waves, 2016, acrylic
on plywood, 46” x 17”

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
Canada (Aug, 2024) – I would like to
acknowledge the indigenous lands we inhabit
and give thanks for an opportunity to gather, to
learn and to share. Chi Miigwetch. #MCFN
“Don’t walk behind me;
I may not lead.
Don’t walk in front of me;
I may not follow.
Walk beside me
that we may be as one.”

TERRAIN, ten. (Photographs by Lee Ka-sing, haiku by Gary Michael Dault
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The man’s ailing wife
said she loved swans
so he swanned every window

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