BOOKBURN / Storyboards Archive
“The use of watercolor is an important part in the search for lucidity with the spontaneous ‘accident’ of the medium serving as a possible guide,” explains George. His watercolors have been created as “an attempt to figure out an atmosphere and ideas for staging.”
Notebooks of ideas, drawings, paintings and storyboards.
This notebook was used to plan BOOKBURN and is a part of the piece itself.
The following are Watercolor paintings depicting storyboard scenes from BOOKBURN. 3″x4.5″ – 4.5″x5.5″
Twelve panel watercolor storyboard sequence of several scenes. These storyboards informed the filming of BOOKBURN. 10″x15″
Books collected (2014)
watercolor on paper
Gathering (2014)
watercolor on paper
Urban book burn (2014)
watercolor on paper
Fire Ignites and Swirls (2014)
watercolor on paper
Fire Lights Up (2014)
watercolor on paper
Book Burner (2014)
watercolor on paper
Angry Crowd (2014)
watercolor on paper
Shame and Ash (2014)
watercolor on paper
Collecting The Ashes (2014)
watercolor on paper
Burned Through Center (2014)
watercolor on paper
Book, Shard, Jar, Emblem (2014)
watercolor on pape
Configuring Installation (2014)
watercolor on paper
Red Figure / Witness in Motion (2014)
watercolor on paper
Red Figure / Tulle and Silk (2014)
watercolor on paper
Disguised (2014)
watercolor on paper
Mask Makeup (2014)
watercolor on paper
Red Figure Among Jars (2014)
watercolor on paper
Fog (2014)
watercolor on paper
Confusion (2014)
watercolor on paper
Memory (2014)
watercolor on paper
Frozen Moment (2014)
watercolor on paper
Madness (2014)
watercolor on paper
Madness Built Up (2014)
watercolor on paper
Frenzy (2014)
watercolor on paper
Raining Books 1 (2014)
watercolor on paper
Raining Books 2 (2014)
watercolor on paper
Raining Books 3 (2014)
watercolor on paper
The watercolor paintings below depict jars holding shards of books burned.
Jars with Ashes (2014)
watercolor on paper; concepts for lighting configurations, 10″ x 8″
Jar (2018), private collection
watercolor on paper
BOOKBURN / Library of Books Burned Pendant
Lucite
Storyboards for shards
The Unnamed Shards are sculptures of books burned past all recognition. Though no two are the same, they are all similar in size and their power is in numbers. Displayed side by side in a long line, on a long (perhaps segmented) table, the Unnamed Shards testify to the sheer, inestimable number of destroyed works and destroyed ideas. They invite the viewer to grapple with this as well, and perhaps to begin a conversation about preservation and communication replacing destruction and silence.
Storyboard (2016)
watercolor on board
Installation Concept (2016)
watercolor on board
Storyboard (2016)
watercolor on board
Installation Concept Drawing (2017)
watercolor on paper