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.