I’m BJ Teriba
Quick Reflection: Seeing Spike Lee For The First Time
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Getting the chance to see the Spike Lee exhibit a second time before it closed was heartening.
It reinvigorated my passion for documenting life, creating around the things that matter to me and reinsured my belief in my own "werk".
Success is defined as “an event that accomplishes its intended purpose.” Life is an event in itself. If nothing else, Spike comes across as a man who means to inspire the masses through his werk.
That is a man who lives in his purpose. There in lies where my deep respect for him stems.
As successful a man as he is, I don’t aspire to be like Spike. His context isn’t mine. His vision isn’t one I share. His goals aren’t the same as mine.
The way he shares his story through his collection, works and productions, helped to glean an ever so slight sense of who he is, what he values and why he feels he was put on this earth.
And that ability — to tell his story through the mediums of his choosing — and invoke both this shared sense of understanding amongst viewers & and the unique message for each of us he forces out of us is something to be both admired & inspired by.
That’s why the small message he wrote in my signed copy of Spike Lee: Director’s Inspiration actually meant something to me. He’s done his werk — to the point where the world knows him for that.
And now it’s my turn to do the same.
