Storyboard page for Roots of Knowledge Panel V-1

Storyboard page for Roots of Knowledge Panel V-1

This is panel V-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 thus: 'Up here we wanted to go for something a bit different. Whenever we are creating these panels we wanted to have an original way. We didn't just want to take images form photographs and paintings and just slop them on the window. We wanted to make them interesting to look at. So what we did is we took a painting, a Mondrian painting, with its squares and rectangles, and inside each square we inserted a person with their quote or their equation, because they are a mathematician or a scientist-of course the one getting a lot of space is Albert Einstein with the Theory of relativity. We also have people like Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, with quotes from their books and poems. We have the Gerschwins, George and Ira, with musical notation. We have a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Great Gatsby. A Modigliani painting, quotes by James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, etc.'

Trevor Petersen