DOUBLE DOUBLE
Writings/ Photographs/ Poetry/ Archives
A Holly Lee and Lee Ka-sing online magazine. Published on Fridays.
李家昇黃楚喬網上雜誌，逢星期五出版
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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 (2)
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
16"x20" gelatin silver prints, photographed and printed in 1981
Anthony 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
“Friends, Artists and People I Know 我的朋友，藝術家及其他”, a series of photographs which was originally made for an invited exhibition “WOMEN OF THE WORLD”, held in May 1981.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”.
Currently, most of the works from this series can be browsed at this link -
https://oceanpounds.com/blogs/fap
ARTIFACT
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 photographs 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 CD player, and all the other gadgets that have a time display on. "Can I just put back myself one hour so I don't have to do all this stuff?". Feeling more relieved, Mrs. Bento decided to let herself fall back an hour when she's in the house. "Everybody just check their cell phones for time anyway...and what's more, I don't need to go back to Daylight Saving Time next Spring". She lay down the Standard Time business with a sign of relief, and fell right back to dreamland.
Mrs. Bento is not Japanese. She and her husband got the Bento name from customers. Immigrated with their daughter Ginger to Canada from Hong Kong twenty years ago. As soon as they arrived, they took a friend's advice and bought a franchise business near the airport area in Mississauga. It was a small sushi bar. No business is easy business, but with Mrs. Bento's clever makeover of a 21st century's 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 were able to save enough money to move to Toronto, in an area known as West Queen West. The Bentos love city life, the short walk to all activities on the street, close proximity to cafes, shops, restaurants, galleries, supermarket and postal office. Nearby there is even the Theatre Centre converted from a historic library building built in 1908.
OP EDITION
Paul Sabol
Gol 95P0110 (work year - 1993)
8"x10", fibre-base gelatin silver photograph (printed in 1995)
OP Edition, with "OP editions" blind-stamp
Edition 7/20, signed and numbered on verso
OP editions are limited edition photographs from the OP Print Program we organized since 1995. After we moved to Toronto, the Program was still in operation for the first five years. Over hundreds of artists have been included, with photographs released as small format limited editions, in 8”x10” fibre-based black and white or chromogenic colour photographs. We plan to publish here, a selection from the collection on a weekly basis.
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
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” 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
A small quantity of this book is now available at GALLERY Z in Kong Kong https://www.galleryzhk.com
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DOUBLE DOUBLE
Issue 0201-2019
A Holly Lee and Lee Ka-sing online magazine. Published on Fridays.
Published by Ocean and Pounds and archived at oceanpounds.com
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leekasing.com is a portal website for current and earlier works. Apart from exhibitions, Holly and Ka-sing use extensively web platforms to display photography and writing projects. Contact us for a detail list of links.
Holly and Ka-sing currently live in Toronto with their daughter Iris, and their cat Sukimoto.
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