Storyboard page for Roots of Knowledge Panel U-1

Storyboard page for Roots of Knowledge Panel U-1

This is panel U-1 from the sketch notebook or storyboard of Trevor Petersen, artist and historian, which he created for the initial design phase of the Roots of Knowledge stained glass project at Holdman Studios in Lehi, Utah. Mr. Petersen describes this page in the following quote: 'Here at the top panel we have some very important authors and artists that were active that time period, and we're trying to go for a more surrealist dream sequence, in which you see this woman dreaming while she's reading a book. Up here we have focused upon bits of Van Gogh's Starry Night, with a quote by Freud The Interpretation of Dreams, we have a white bulb being held by a hand, we assume it's Edison's hand and that's an Edison quote inside the white bulb which also encases the crescent moon from Starry Night. We have a painting by Klimt because his paintings were very dreamlike in their own way. We have background paintings done for the Rites of Spring for Stravinsky's great ballet, quotes by Mark Twain, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, etc.'

Trevor Petersen