MONDAY ARTPOST 2024-1202

MONDAY
ARTPOST
2024-1202
ISSN1918-6991
MONDAYARTPOST.COM
Columns by Artists and Writers
Bob Black / bq / Cem Turgay / Fiona Smyth /
Edwin Kwan / Gary Michael Dault / Kai Chan /
Kamelia Pezeshki / Lee Ka-sing / Malgorzata
Wolak Dault / Shelley Savor / Tamara
Chatterjee / Tomio Nitto / Yam Lau /
Night Reading 夜 讀 記
MONDAY ARTPOST published on Mondays. Columns by Artists and Writers. All Right Reserved. Published since 2002.
Edit and Design: DOUBLE DOUBLE studio. Publisher: Ocean and Pounds. ISSN 1918-6991. mail@oceanpounds.com
Free Subscription: subscribe.mondayartpost.com / Support: patreon.com/kasingholly

Lee Ka-sing’s Night Reading
The Night Reading series began in November 2024, about
two months after Holly’s passing. Following her departure, I
started organizing the things she left behind. In addition to her
photographic and textual works, there were also a large number of
personal diaries, creative notes, and travel journals. Naturally, these
included many of the letters we had exchanged as well.
I usually go through these materials at night, after dinner or
before bed. Night Reading could be described as reflections on
these remnants—fragments of memory, a kind of conversation,
sometimes even a whisper, between us. This dialogue will continue
over a long period of time and serves as a way for me to hold her
in remembrance. While its form will remain consistent, the imagery
will diverge, branching out into different directions as the years
pass.
Night Reading
For the first entry of Night Reading, I chose her diary entry from
Friday, August 23—the last one she wrote, 20 days before her
passing: “Book delivered today. Ka-sing made a portrait.”
The “book” refers to Sushi Grass in Paradise, a set of sixteen
books shipped from Taiwan by Ching Ping. The “portrait” is the
photograph I took of all the books arranged on the table in our
sitting area. Holly and I shared fifty years together; we understood
each other as if seeing clearly into a mirror. Looking at these diaries
transports me instantly back to moments long past, even revealing
depths I hadn’t noticed at the time. And so, I find myself adrift,
overwhelmed by a profound sense of loss.
More about Night Reading
reads.doubledouble.org/2024/11/night-reading.html

2024-05-16
2024-08-23 2024-05-16
Night Reading 夜 讀 記

2024-01-24
2024-08-21 2024-01-24
Night Reading 夜 讀 記

Sketchbook
Tomio Nitto

Caffeine Reveries
Shelley Savor
Forest Vigilante

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs,
2010-2024
From the Photographs, 2010-2024
Number 56: Headless (Cluny Museum, Paris, 2014)

Greenwood
Kai Chan
Drawing
34 x 42 cm, acrylic paint on rice paper

Yam Lau
A big part of the physics community was completely convinced that supersymmetry was
going to be detected by the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), and it wasn’t…
- Carlo Rovelli on physics and philosophy 2022 AD
Nature loves to hide.
- Heraclitus 500 BC

Edwin Kwan

Poem a Week
Gary Michael Dault
Rough Weather
quiet quiet
listen to
the sky’s wheel
watch the clouds
turn to gravel
light up your last
sun cigarette
uncork a bottle
of downpour wine

The Photograph
Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Ontario place in fog #2 by Jim Hurtubise

bq 不 清
IN RESPONSE TO THE COMEDIAN
Is it necessary to go back to
the new art, to re-peel the
machine that defined a generation of
conclusive doubt? The laughter
is insured, now that a comedy pub is
revived at the end of the motorway.
But how would they grasp it,
when our thoughts decelerate, no longer
juggling as they once did?
They solve the hardest part
of the question by sidestepping the joke.
Not far away, instructed fightings
sporadically break out
after the treaty was signed, forever
secured on the wall.

CHEEZ
Fiona Smyth

Leaving Taichung
Station
Bob Black
The Sky Red as Your Name Buckled in a Letter
the dead dance throughout the night
fold themselves into the apparition of leaves
friend to friend, toe to stem
on rooftops along green-red neon streets
theatre of lines
a pavilion of shadow
a circus of algebraic dreams
a cathedral for an ant’s home dug into a corner of a Mews stable
a child, scampering sings and clongs
the prayers in the backroom behind the dishwasher’s sink
the falling rock like thunder from the height to the bay, crackle
and who shall share the joy under which the trees and pinecomb blossom
you or your children long in their summer running
the muddy gallop toward distance and an oracular sea

ProTesT
Cem Turgay

Travelling Palm
Snapshots
Tamara Chatterjee
Canada (August, 2024) – “Today we have
gathered and we see that the cycles of life
continue. We have been given the duty to live
in balance and harmony with each other and
all living things. So now, we bring our minds
together as one as we give greetings and
thanks to each other as people.” an excerpt
from the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving
Address.

TERRAIN, eleven. (Photographs by Lee Ka-sing, haiku by Gary Michael Dault
in response). Read this daily collaborative column at oceanpounds.com
Riverrun
a river of headlights
rushes to
the lagoon of dawn

http://kasingholly.com

Night Owl Sonata (in one
movement)
By Holly Lee (1953-2024)
Format: 6x9 inch, Hardcover
152 pages
First Edition, Limited to 100 copies
Published by OCEAN POUNDS
CAN$45.00
Night Owl Sonata is a collection of 40 poemprose
pieces that reflect Holly Lee’s profound
growth as a writer. Composed during a
reflective and transformative period of her
life, these works were originally published in
MONDAY ARTPOST. The book is a testament
to Holly’s enduring creative spirit, with writing
that embodies the grace and clarity of a
seasoned artist who had reached the pinnacle
of her literary craft.
Order from BLURB
https://www.blurb.ca/b/12144767-nightowl-sonata-in-one-movement

Several ways of not to miss
a single issue of MONDAY
ARTPOST.
subscribe.mondayartpost.com
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.
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.
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
Since 2008, INDEXG B&B have served curators, artists,
art-admirers, collectors and professionals from different
cities visiting and working in Toronto.
INDEXG B&B
48 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto
Booking:
mail@indexgbb.com
416.535.6957