Silent Footsteps is a book of one choice, to live or die. The decision is not always a conscious one, but one of destiny. It follows the never-ending battle of parent vs. child, age vs. youth, experience vs. inexperience, all of which continue from beyond the shroud of death. What is it like to die? And is it fair that 'forever' results from one bad decision? Only one person can answer these questions and that person is dead. Silent Footsteps looks at death from the deceased's point of view; where education never stops, and the lessons learned while in the flesh teach the dead.
Daniel Reed's life takes an unexpected turn when he inherits money from his father's estate and learns that his girlfriend, Emma, is pregnant and has cheated on him with his best friend. Struggling with heartbreak and confusion about his sexuality, he embarks on a solo journey around the world. This adventure leads him to meet intriguing individuals and explore the possibility of finding new love, all while navigating the complexities of his emotions and relationships.
During their road trip in the USA, British tourists Kyle and Elise face a financial crisis that forces them to cut their journey short. On their final night in Fort Lauderdale, they encounter Daniel Reed, a charming entrepreneur whose seemingly perfect life in Miami captivates them. This chance meeting sets the stage for unexpected twists and revelations, challenging their perspectives and plans.
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For more than forty years Stephen Buckley, born 1944 has concerned himself with addressing the major themes of the twentieth century through a personal style oscillating between the matière of Kurt Schwitters, the dandyism of Francis Picabia and the intellectual rigour of Marcel Duchamp. He takes the two most basic components of a conventional painting (canvas and stretcher), and makes multi-dimensional constructions, joins groups of single canvases together in overlapping structures, makes shaped canvases, cuts a stretcher with a variegated edge, stitches and weaves together strips of canvas, patches pieces of canvas onto another support, and adds cardboard tubing, rope, found objects and cut out shapes. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, Buckley saw extended prominence in the art press, starting with the artist being described as ‘the Punk Rock of contemporary painting’ and ending with him gaining the title of ‘the ubiquitous Stephen Buckley’. There is now a large portfolio of themes, references, motifs and symbols which are continually reworked and reinvented. Since then, he has made some of his most compelling paintings, lush pop canvases full of symbols and colour, a far cry from the pared-down, industrial feel of some of his early works. This publication is the first in more than thirty years to consider Stephen Buckley’s painting as a body of work.
