I am here Mukpo
This is two panels from the inside wall of the building where the first Shambhala meditation center met in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1980s. Chogyam Trungpa visited the center and calligraphed "I am here MUKPO" on the wall. When the center moved, they wanted to take the panels with them. It was only possible to take the last two panels, which say "UKPO." The Shambhala Archives has plans to recreate the whole calligraphy at some point in the future. Someone commented this looks almost like graffiti -- which in fact it is, sort of!
posted by Carolyn Gimian at 1:07 AM
4 Comments:
Hey, where is this from? :) Almost looks like a graffitti.
Was this in the building at Cornwalls?
If so I think we can still recover it.
I am here ukpo is stored in the basement at Tower Road. We have been looking for a home for the two panels, but don't yet have a place to install them. The M was destroyed at some point, I believe.
This building was on the the corner of Barrington and Sackville, 3rd floor with Vogue Optical on the main street. It's impossible to do calligraphy vertically and John Leon, who was the Director of the Centre at the time, had to paint around the bottoms of the letters because they all ran down the wall. The two panels which were saved were on panel board ... the other one, was gyp-rock over a closed-in hallway and fell apart when moving was attempted.
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