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
A Poem by Holly Lee
I Love You Bonfire
I love you
When all right and wrong
diminished by time
missteps
but school curriculum
When
you no longer impose
Give me time
and I will
disentangle
Cos’ it’s the past
what is covered
must surface
If I were to choose
I prefer to take
Your kindest and wisest
Erratically
you do exist
for a few thousand years
Since when
become
purgatory fire
the one I care to imagine
the one
You
我愛你理想國
我愛你
當一切對錯
隨時空消減
失誤
成正面教材
愛你
因為你沒再強詞
給我時間
慢慢
解理
旣是過去
被淹蓋的
都要浮出來
要我去選擇
我寧願記取
你最善良的最智慧的
斷斷續續
你確實
活過幾千年
何時
只成為
一個想像
我想像中的
一個
你
CURRENT WORK
Sushi Grass in Paradise (A story)
written by Holly Lee
with photographs by Lee Ka-sing
(40) The American Fifties
“Today’s HOSOP meeting starts with news of Robert Frank’s death.” Mr. Bento said with a low voice, lifting up his spectacles and gently soothing his eyes with two fingers, he tried to recall something. “I remember seeing recent photographs of him taken by a Canadian photographer. Was it last May, no, it was the May before last May, during Toronto’s Contact Photo Festival. They were taken at Mabou on Cape Breton Island, pictures of Frank inside and around his home, he seemed to be well at ease. One could feel the good rapport between them.”
“Robert Frank, you mean the photographer who got famous for the book The Americans?” asked Wandy. “I saw this book long time ago, maybe 20 years ago.”
“You’re right Wandy.” said George. “Speaking of which, do you have that book in the third floor library? It gave me an impression that there’s a good collection of photo monographs up there.” Just at this moment Chai and Mrs. Bento entered the room, both carrying a tray seated with bowls. “Red bean soup everyone!” Mrs. Bento said with a cheerful voice. “Cooked with organic red beans, age-old dried orange peel and sweetened with rock sugar. By the way, this is my niece Chai. She is working on a project in Toronto and will be staying with us for a while. Chai, this is uncle George, Aunt Wandy, Uncle Yoji and Uncle Bill.” They lay the bowls down carefully on the table and provided spoons for the guests.
“The Americans was first published in the late 50s, and has since been republished many times. I don’t go up to the library very much and wouldn’t know if there’s a copy.” Mr. Bento turned to Chai, “You have been working up there recently, have you seen Robert Frank’s The Americans?”
Chai thought for a while and said, “Yes, it’s a very famous book. I have not seen it upstairs…but I saw some other books by Robert Frank: The Lines of My Hand and hmm…the postcard book…what’s the name…ah yes, it is Thank you. And I’ve also found a few other books relating to that period which are quite interesting: The Family of Man, Walker Evans and also…Limelight.”
“The Family of Man?” asked Yoji. “You mean the legendary photo exhibition at MoMA way back, I think, around the 50’s? I would really like to look at the book!”
“Geez, you know what, I can’t believe it seems like yesterday that I saw this exhibition at MoMA, my first trip to New York!” proclaimed Bill, who is the oldest member of HOSOP. “More than 60 years! So is it the original catalogue of the show, or a recent reprint?”
“Oh, I didn’t really look into the details, but my impression is it did look a bit old.” Chai passed Mrs. Bento a quick look and pleaded, “Aunty can I go upstairs and bring the book down? It sounds like an important book and could be worthwhile sharing.” Mrs. Bento nodded, finishing the rest of her red bean soup with a gulp and said, “Certainly. Let me go with you.”
The two ladies returned minutes later with a pile of books. One of them was The Family of Man. The publication was designed like a magazine. They passed it around and examining it with great interest. For sure the catalogue was printed in 1955, published on the occasion of the exhibition with the same name. The spine of the book appeared a bit beat-up, its edges worn-out, pages turned yellow and slightly shaken. An image of a Peruvian Piper adorned the cover, backing up with the graphic of multiple coloured quadrilateral forms - a Mid-Century modern design popular at that time. Beneath the image stood the title The Family of Man in bigger types, following by texts in smaller size: The Greatest Photographic Exhibition of
All Time - 503 pictures from 68 countries - curated by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art. Prologue by Carl Sandburg. An old, stained and faded $4.95 price sticker was still stuck on the upper right corner of the book. They turned the pages with extreme care, lest they came off like breeze. In fact some pages had already broken free.
"Sushi Grass in Paradise" is an on-going story. To read the full length version with previous chapters, please visit- https://oceanpounds.com/blogs/sushi-grass-in-paradise
CURRENT WORK
Lee Ka-sing
Selection from DUET series (work year 2019)
Photographs from DUET series are available in BIBLIOTHEKA editions - print which remains the exact layout of a single page of BIBLIOTHEKA folio publication, size 6.25x13 inches, open edition with BIBLIOTHEKA blind-stamp, and signed on verso. Please contact mail@leekasing.com
Bar against the sky
Hand
Voices on a metal sheet
Framing the disappearance
Boy walking towards a green plant
Crystal in front of the large window
Flowers from the vase
Flowers from the vase, number 2
Watercourse
Water passing through a piece of glass
Tree and memories, 1
Tree and memories, 2
Tree and memories, 3
Tunnel
The wall in shadow
Going through
Photo festi
White and black
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DOUBLE DOUBLE
Issue 1108-2019
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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Holly and Ka-sing currently live in Toronto with their daughter Iris, and their cat Sukimoto.
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