The Beginnings of Eternity

First edition of The Beginnings of Eternity by Paddy Summerfield (2024). Medium format hardback in new condition. Please see photos for reference. 

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Paddy Summerfield's The Beginnings Of Eternity, three years in the making, is his first published colour essay. It starts as an apparent travelogue: traffic and hedges, winter moon and July fields are glimpsed from a moving car. This repeated journey shifts through daylight and changing seasons, looping around local lanes and streets, then entering domestic spaces, into a final garden brilliance. Summerfield has always been a story-teller; in The Beginnings Of Eternity he has a new narrative device – an idiosyncratic colour code that creates the rhythm of the essay, and signals the unfolding of Summerfield's vision of a journey that is both metaphorical and spiritual, towards a peace beyond understanding.