Seattle exhibit focuses on the philosophy of Bruce Lee

Aug 9 (Reuters) – After a pandemic-induced delay, a everlasting exhibition targeted on Bruce Lee’s philosophy is opening on the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Expertise in Seattle, with assist of the Bruce Lee Basis.

His daughter Shannon Lee, who oversees the inspiration, advised Reuters that the exhibit, “Be Water, My Pal,” was as an immersive extension of her analysis into her father’s life as a thinker.

“I did not really feel like everyone was getting the total image of the human being. And it is actually a part of my mission for individuals to know really what degree of thinker he actually was,” Lee stated of the challenge, which is housed in an unassuming historic constructing within the metropolis’s Chinatown-Worldwide District.

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She stated she remembers little glimpses of life along with her father earlier than he died when she was 4: him holding her on his lap and enjoying, visiting him on set at Golden Harvest Studios, and their dwelling in Hong Kong.

“They’re very significant moments to me, however they’re simply transient little contact factors,” Lee recollects of these early reminiscences.

Shannon Lee, daughter of the late Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee, poses in entrance of a portrait of her father on the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, earlier than the beginning of a five-year exhibition on Lee, July 18, 2013. Late kung fu famous person Bruce Lee could also be a global icon, however he’s nonetheless not the entire native hero in Hong Kong. Followers are marking his loss of life 40 years in the past this weekend with artwork gallery reveals, exhibitions and even avenue graffiti however some individuals are urging Hong Kong’s authorities to do extra to honour the previous British colony’s greatest star. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

“However the limitless a part of my reminiscence is that I’ve an actual sense of him, him energetically, him, the way in which he made me really feel, the way in which I felt in his presence. His vitality, his love, his adoration, his sense of security, being with him.”

Her father’s assortment of two,800 books – spanning martial arts principle, filmmaking, and philosophy – will stay on the museum completely, together with different keepsakes in a separate exhibit.

Seattle is wealthy with the legacy of Bruce Lee: Ruby Chow restaurant the place he as soon as labored, the College of Washington, the place he studied philosophy and met his spouse, Linda Lee Cadwell, and finally the place he was buried in 1973 at Lake View Cemetery within the Capitol Hill neighbourhood.

For father and son Minh and Michael Nguyen, on trip from the East Coast, the exhibit was a must-visit attraction.

“I do know all about Bruce Lee, not personally, however from movie in 1973 once I was in Vietnam, and I like all of his motion pictures. So when my son requested me to take him to this exhibit, I am very comfortable to do it,” Minh Nguyen stated.