MONDAY ARTPOST 2025-0120

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2025-0120
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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 /
Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee Archive 李 家 昇 黃 楚 喬 文 件 庫
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M Column Contributors
Cem Turgay lives and works as a photographer in Turkey. Edwin Kwan a photographer lives in Toronto 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 awardwinning
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.
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By Fiona Smyth
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Holly Lee
(1953-2024)
Tomapple #4177
蘋 果 茄 #4177
Photo-based work from the series Hollian Thesaurus
8 x 10-inch archival inkjet print in a ready-made 12 x 14-inch frame
Year of creation: 2000
The Works of Holly Lee, edited by the Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee Archive, is a
multi-volume book project comprising over 20 volumes. The series is currently
being compiled and will be published by Ocean and Pounds. Each issue of M
will feature a selected piece from this project.

Fiona Smyth
CHEEZ

Tamara Chatterjee
Travelling Palm Snapshots
France (May, 2024) – After a lovely traditional
dinner inside the fortified walls of Le Mont
St. Michel, stuffed with a gluttonous meal and
rejoicing in the day’s experience, we made our
way back over the causeway to our lodging for the
night. Walking the suspended bridge provided
a great view of the mud flats, tributaries and
quicksand beneath. I was quite taken with the
patterns and texture surrounding the Mont, from
the causeway and the elevated views at the top of
the fortification.

The Photograph Selected by
Kamelia Pezeshki
Forgotten faces by Keijo Tapanainen

Tomio Nitto
Sketchbook

Gary Michael Dault
Poem a Week
Spring Rain
the spring rain
stops
and it feels like
never again
after the rain
there is no
noise
left
trucks and cars
pass
silent as clouds
a man
walking his dog
tries to whistle
and can’t
the first bulbs
shimmer into the air
with no applause
no beaming
March 30/20

David Clarke
TAI TAM
Climbing Violet Hill on the snake’s third day,
I’m both the hiker and the path being trod.
Bumbling along, from now towards more now,
like a bee fortunately lost from the hive.
A mountain’s shoulder - all that shields the city from view.
I’ll just as happily return there by dusk.
Close at hand, birdsong of a newly-born spring,
Hong Kong’s February,
warmer than an English June.
In the distance, a lion’s drums,
sole trace of the human realm.
Everywhere, new leaves from old belichened branches,
As if green was a new invention, yet to be named.
A watercolour painting from my exhibition ‘Colour in Space’, held at the University Museum and Art
Gallery of the University of Hong Kong, 15 November 2024 – 2 February 2025. A digital version of the
exhibition can be found at: https://www.virtual2.umag.hku.hk/david-clarke-colour-in-space. Plus a
poem substantially written on 12 February 2013 - at the beginning of a previous Lunar New Year of the
snake - after a walk in the Tai Tam Country Park, Hong Kong. Lion dances are often held at the start
of the lunar new year, with the two man team inside the costume dancing to drum accompaniment.
Although Hong Kong is primarily known internationally as a busy metropolis, a large part of its territory
is made up of unspoilt Country Parks, which are often to be found not far from the built-up areas.
Hong Kong is my home, England my place of birth.

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

Shelley Savor
Caffeine Reveries
Coyote in the Park
(I have seen 2 large coyotes in the parks near
Wellington and Strachan lately, Bob says they
are actually wolves. I think they may be a coyote
wolf mix. Quite alarming. They are probably
from Ontario Place where Ford chopped
all the trees down).

Gary Michael Dault
From the Photographs, 2010-2025
Number 62: Morning Comes, the Dog Raises its Head

Edwin Kwan

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Diptych (2014-2023) A Group of Boxes Ready to Receive Desire
一 群 正 準 備 着 接 收 欲 望 的 盒 子
Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee Archive EST. 2024
Diptych (2014–2023), a series of over 1,500 diptychs created over ten years, is currently being reformatted
for publication in book volumes. In the meantime, you’re welcome to browse a flipbook version of the
series at diptych.leekasing.com as we continue the work in progress.
The series is also shared on Facebook and Instagram several times a week.
Edited by: LEE KA-SING AND HOLLY LEE ARCHIVE kasingholly.com kasingholly@gmail.com

(above) We Landed by the Water, Facing a Large Building with a Striped Ceiling, 2020
(below) Memories Sprouting from a Pattern of Grids, 2020
(above) A Wooden Door Facing the Wall Marked with Wounds, 2020
(below) This Path Leads to the Large Room Constructed with Tomorrow’s Plans, 2020

(above) The Currents Racing Through the Ground, 2020
(below) The Nervous System Resting on a Blue Background, Singing a Song, 2020
(above) A Drooping Potted Plant Gazes at Its Companion’s Shadow on the Opposite Wall, 2020
(below) Listening to Bach at Home During the Time of Coronavirus, 2020

SIX PORTRAITS by Holly Lee
vintage gelatin silver photograph, 8x10 inches (1993-94)
Visual Research into Contemporary Hong Kong 1990-1996, organized by the Hong Kong Arts
Centre, Wong Wo Bik, and others, featured the works of 31 participating photographers, including
Holly and myself. Holly photographed a series of six portraits of artists, which could be seen as an
extension of her earlier series on artists, though it adopted an entirely different approach. In 2019,
while revisiting past works, this series of photographs was published in DOUBLE DOUBLE, issue
1106-2020, accompanied by a piece of note written by Holly. Here, we reprint it in its entirety.
For me, the nineties in Hong Kong was the best of time. While hesitating about climate of the
city’s future, people inevitably had to move forward. Everything was in motion, everybody worked
enthusiastically toward identifying one thing or the other; Chinese, Hong Kongese, pre-colonial,
post-colonial, and the degree of Britishness affecting and intervening ordinary people’s lives. For
a moment, we did have a cultural identity crisis, and many cultural projects produced around
that period reflected just that - who were we as a Hong Kong people? In 1993, I was invited to
work on the third phase of a project curated and directed by Wong Wo Bik namely A Metropolis:
Visual Research into Contemporary Hong Kong 1990-1996. My contribution to the project was to
take portraits of selected artists, who were from different area. Basically we knew each other well
because there weren’t many working in the arts and it was a small and tight-knit circle. However,
they represented certain aspect of Hong Kong activities and creativities in the nineties, and
admittedly they were among the best in the art field. In the course of organizing some old pictures
I came across these six prints again, but found one - Sunny Pang’s portrait missing. Instead I
located the test strip. As a matter of fact,
this mini series of portraits had never been
officially exhibited. The 8x10 prints that I
found and which are on view here were work
prints, a small part of the printing materials
for the more substantial book printed in
1996 as a result of the multi-year visual
research project.
(above) 彭 錦 耀 Sunny Pang (Dancer, Choreographer, Performing artist)
(opposite page) 唐 景 森 Tong King Sum (Sculptor)

(above) 黃 仁 逵 Yank Wong (Painter)
(below) 鄧 達 智 William Tang (Fashion Designer)
(above) 梅 卓 燕 Mui Cheuk-Yin (Dancer, Choreographer)
(below) 尊 子 Zunzi (cartoonist)

Night Reading 夜 讀 記
You’re welcome to browse a flipbook version of the series at:
reads.doubledouble.org/2024/11/night-reading.html
The series is also shared on Facebook and Instagram several times a week.

TERRAIN
kasingholly.com
TERRAIN is a daily collaboration project featuring photography by Lee Ka-sing paired with responsive
haiku by Gary Michael Dault. The project aims to produce 1,000 collaborative pairs, to be presented across
twenty volumes of books. We are currently on Volume Twelve.
These daily collaborations are published on the front page of OCEANPOUNDS.COM, an online retail
platform showcasing works by Lee Ka-sing and Holly Lee. The site offers a diverse range of creations,
including originals, unique pieces, multiples, objects, monographs, and PDF e-books.

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