The Story of the 20-Year Performance Art Piece of Daniel Madison... Between the pages of this book, hidden in my story, I will expose the secrets that secured me the powerful position as a 'pioneer and leader of modern close-up-deception.' These are not secrets of sleight-of-hand or techniques of deceptive dexterity, but the strategic and intricately planned method that lead to my success, aided by the psychologies and performance philosophies of my character development. What I believe to be the most interesting factor in my self-qualified position, is that all of these morals where acquired during what became a twenty-year long performance art piece in which I would pretend to be a magician. What started out as a simple experiment, became a full-time character-driven career. In the end, the line between Daniel Madison and I, became so blurred that trying to separate the two, almost completely tore me apart. The story began on August the 18th, 1998.