Cast Bronze
94 × 103 × 55 cm
(The Dragon) The dragon is among the most universal of mythological creatures — in Chinese cosmology a benevolent force of water and imperial power, in European legend a fearsome guardian of treasure, in Mesoamerican tradition the feathered serpent Quetzalcóatl bridging earth and sky. But the dragon also lived in the body of Bruce Lee, whose martial philosophy held that a fighter should become like water — shapeless, formless, adapting to any vessel — while striking with the concentrated force of a creature from another dimension entirely. The sculpture's figure, one leg raised high and the body coiled in that signature instant between stillness and explosion, captures exactly what Lee embodied on screen and in the dojo: the dragon not as myth but as a living principle of energy, the human form pushed to the threshold of something beyond human.
Cast Bronze
94 × 103 × 55 cm
(The Dragon) The dragon is among the most universal of mythological creatures — in Chinese cosmology a benevolent force of water and imperial power, in European legend a fearsome guardian of treasure, in Mesoamerican tradition the feathered serpent Quetzalcóatl bridging earth and sky. But the dragon also lived in the body of Bruce Lee, whose martial philosophy held that a fighter should become like water — shapeless, formless, adapting to any vessel — while striking with the concentrated force of a creature from another dimension entirely. The sculpture's figure, one leg raised high and the body coiled in that signature instant between stillness and explosion, captures exactly what Lee embodied on screen and in the dojo: the dragon not as myth but as a living principle of energy, the human form pushed to the threshold of something beyond human.
