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His daughter Shannon Lee, who oversees the
foundation, told Reuters that the exhibit, "Be Water, My
Friend," was as an immersive extension of her research into her
father's life as a philosopher.
“I didn't feel like everybody was getting the full picture of
the human being. And it's really part of my mission for people
to understand actually what level of philosopher he really was,”
Lee said of the project, which is housed in an unassuming
historic building in the city’s Chinatown-International
District.
She said she remembers little glimpses of life with her father
before he died when she was 4: him holding her on his lap and
playing, visiting him on set at Golden Harvest Studios, and
their home in Hong Kong.
“They're very meaningful moments to me, but they're just brief
little touch points,” Lee recalls of those early memories.
“But the unlimited part of my memory is that I have a real sense
of him, him energetically, him, the way he made me feel, the way
I felt in his presence. His energy, his love, his adoration, his
sense of safety, being with him.”
Her father’s collection of 2,800 books - spanning martial arts
theory, filmmaking, and philosophy - will remain at the museum
permanently, along with other keepsakes in a separate exhibit.
Seattle is rich with the legacy of Bruce Lee: Ruby Chow
restaurant where he once worked, the University of Washington,
where he studied philosophy and met his wife, Linda Lee Cadwell,
and ultimately where he was buried in 1973 at Lake View Cemetery
in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood.
For father and son Minh and Michael Nguyen, on vacation from the
East Coast, the exhibit was a must-visit attraction.
“I know all about Bruce Lee, not personally, but from film in
1973 when I was in Vietnam, and I like all of his movies. So
when my son asked me to take him to this exhibit, I'm very happy
to do it,” Minh Nguyen said.
(Editing by Gerry Doyle and Michael Perry)
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